How do i change the look and feel of a window

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Hello,

I have developed a dialog based application,now i want to change my application like a web based application,as in changing the look and feel of the window ,so can any kindly suggest me for the same.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,
Rocky.

Posted 24-Sep-12 0:17am

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Joan M 24-Sep-12 6:19am

Try to explain it a little bit more, use imageshack or any other image hosting system to show us what you are after and then probably someone will be able to help you...

Rocky_Bas 24-Sep-12 6:24am

Are there any specific function or classes in MFC to change the look of the buttons,edit boxes and static text.

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**JF2015** · Answer 1 · 2012-09-24T00:29:00

Solution 1

You can of course do it all by yourself, but this is really too much work anyone should spend on such a topic. We had the same request at work and then decided to use the Codejock controls which allow skinning and changing themes with very minimal code. See here for some sample screens:
http://www.codejock.com/products/skinframework/default.asp?platform=mfc[^]

Posted 24-Sep-12 0:29am

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pasztorpisti 25-Sep-12 7:18am

5ed, This is something that really worth investing some money in. I've played around with skinning in my free time and a correct quality skinning library must be at least many months to put together even for an expert win32 gui programmer. I think some (if not all) windows controls weren't invented for skinning and some of them are extremely hard to perfectly skin (like windows/popup menus) so your code will be dirty (with full of hacks) and I still haven't mentioned different behavior on different windows versions. The maintenance of such library is also something I wouldn't like to do so going with a library in this case is quite reasonable.

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) · Answer 2 · 2012-09-24T00:37:00

Solution 2

Please go throgh the discussion How to change MFC dialog and controls' look and feel[^], where it talks about AfxMessageBox() function and other methods.

Enhanced MFC Message Boxes[^] will help you in your requirements.

Thanks...

Posted 24-Sep-12 0:37am

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)