Change dialog window background color

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Hi all,

I want WM_CTLCOLOR message send to dialog window with help of SendMessage. Please help me out, which parameter should I use with SendMessage(hWnd,WM_CTLCOLOR,----,----);

I am just trying to change background color in window.

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Vivek chauhan

Posted 5-May-10 2:14am

vivek.chauhan2009

Updated 15-May-10 22:10pm

Moak

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Moak 16-May-10 4:33am

Updated subject and tags, hope this is what you are looking for.

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2010-05-05T02:55:00

Solution 1

As you may find in the documentation [^], wParam mush be the HDC used to update the control, while wParam must be the handle of the control itself (you may also find this notification is obsolete).
Now, what are you trying to do?

vivek.chauhan2009 wrote:
I am just trying to change background color in window.

Something like this?

:)

Posted 5-May-10 2:55am

CPallini

Updated 5-May-10 20:47pm

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vivek.chauhan2009 5-May-10 23:55pm

I am just trying to change background color in window.