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Hi, whats the best way of painting the background of my child window the

same as my parent window? Im using a tab control and have a dialog

placed over it, but when i use XP styles, the dialog is grey, but the

tab background is white, so i want them to match. (See your graphics

options - right click desktop ->properties, for a comparison of the tab

control).



Ive tried the following 2 pieces of code in OnEraseBkgnd()



CDC* pParentDC = m_pParentWnd->GetDC();

COLORREF crBack = pParentDC->GetBkColor();



CRect rctArea;

this->GetClientRect(&rctArea);

pDC->FillSolidRect(&rctArea, crBack);





and





CDC* pParentDC = m_pParentWnd->GetDC();

CBrush* pBrush = pParentDC->GetCurrentBrush();



CRect rctArea;

this->GetClientRect(&rctArea);

pDC->FillRect(rctArea, pBrush);





Which works ok, ie with no xp style, theyre grey, with XP style they are

white. But the tab background isnt actual white, its slightly off white,

so you can still see a border, so i presume i dont have the correct

colours loaded (ie, theyre reset when not in the middle of the parent

controls paint method).



Can anyone shed some light onto getting the dialogs the same colour please?



Cheers



Mark


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"Mark Ingram" <mark.ingram@removeme.softease.com>wrote in message

No promises, but...



http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/userex/functions/enablethemedialogtexture.asp



...have you tried using this API yet?



--

Jeff Partch [VC++ MVP]





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Mark wrote:

Maybe GetSysColor(COLOR_3DFACE)



It worked on different shades of gray dialogs,

but I didn't use it on white XP style dialog...



muchan

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Jeff Partch [MVP] wrote:

I tried using that by defining _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501 and trying to call

that function but it caused loads of compilation errors.



I cant use GetSysColor either, because its default is grey, even if you

use XP themes.



I can imagine EnableThemeDialogTexture works in an API project, but its

not working well for me in MFC. Got any ideas howto get around this?

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Mark Ingram wrote:

How about GetSysColorCOLOR_WINDOW); ?



muchan

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