Setting Dialog Box Background Colour

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I've been trying to change the background colour of a modal dialog box in Visual C++ 2008.

It ought to be easy (shouldn't it?) but being a bit thick I haven't been able to do it even after searching through documentation in Code Project.

Can anyone tell me how I can create a dialog box with a chosen background colour using the dialog resource editor?

Many thanks in anticipation, tnarb.

Posted 21-Jun-11 5:28am

tnarb

Updated 21-Jun-11 7:27am

Joan M

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tnarb 21-Jun-11 12:56pm

Very many thanks for this. It looks exactly what I'm looking for. Regards, David George

Joan M 21-Jun-11 13:24pm

You are welcome! you should put your comments under the post you want to comment though :-D

tnarb 21-Jun-11 13:57pm

Many thanks again - it works wonders. Sorry about the wrong post!

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Joan M · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-21T05:52:00

Take a look here[^], you will find the answer in the topic 4.2.

It is easy, you need only to handle the WM_ERASEBACKGROUND message.

You can't change the dialog background colour using the resource editor... <-- edit.

Hope this helps! :thumbsup:

PS: Anyway, a small google search with "background color dialog visual c++" would have done it...