Setting static text color -- I know I'm doing something wrong

What I want to do is set the static control's text color to red. What I did was capture the WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC message like this:

Code:

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case WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC:
    SetTextColor((HDC) wParam, RGB(255,0,0));
    return 0;

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So, shouldn't this change the text color of the static to red? Am I missing something or doing something wrong? Thanks

Garfield

You have to return a valid brush handle (which you are responsible for freeing). Don't ask my why it wouldn't work as written because your code looked just fine to me.

Code:

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//In wndproc
static HBRUSH hbr=CreateSolidBrush(GetSysColor(COLOR_BTNFACE));
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case WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC:
        {
        SetBkMode((HDC) wParam,TRANSPARENT);
        SetTextColor((HDC) wParam, RGB(255,0,0));
        return (LRESULT)hbr;
        }
case WM_DESTROY:
    {
    DeleteObject(hbr);
    PostQuitMessage(0);
    return 0;
    }

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Hope that helps.

The code is still not working. I'm even returning a handle to a HBRUSH type. It's not setting the text color of the static control to red. Would you like to see the code and what I'm doing?

When I change the color of a static control for a hyperlink or something like that, I always do it like this:

Code:

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HWND hControl = HWND(lParam);//handle to the control

/*-------------------------------------------------*/
case WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC: // Draw the hyperlink in blue
      switch (GetDlgCtrlID(hControl))
      {
        case IDC_HYPERLINK:
            SetBkMode((HDC)wParam, TRANSPARENT);
            SetTextColor((HDC)wParam, RGB(255, 0,0 ));
                return (LRESULT)GetStockObject(HOLLOW_BRUSH);
      }
                break;

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I think the problem is that he doesn't know wich static control to change the color of

this is MFC from the MSDN i believe but it might give you some idea of how

Code:

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HBRUSH CStaticLink::CtlColor(CDC* pDC, UINT nCtlColor)
{
    ASSERT(nCtlColor == CTLCOLOR_STATIC);
    DWORD dwStyle = GetStyle();
   
    HBRUSH hbr = NULL;
    if ((dwStyle & 0xFF) <= SS_RIGHT) {

        // this is a text control: set up font and colors
        if (!(HFONT)m_font) {
            // first time init: create font
            LOGFONT lf;
            GetFont()->GetObject(sizeof(lf), &lf);
            lf.lfUnderline = TRUE;
            m_font.CreateFontIndirect(&lf);
        }

        // use underline font and visited/unvisited colors
        pDC->SelectObject(&m_font);
        pDC->SetTextColor(m_color);
        pDC->SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT);

        // return hollow brush to preserve parent background color
        hbr = (HBRUSH)::GetStockObject(HOLLOW_BRUSH);
    }
    return hbr;
}

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