MFC - Push Button Background Color

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What controls the background color in a push button on an application wizard generated through an MFC project?

Depending on the application settings I pick I get a different backgound color on my pushbutton in the generated "About" dialog box. In some projects I get the older looking button with a solid backgound color matching the dialog backgound and in others I get a newer looking button with the top half matching the dialog and the bottom half a light blue.

Posted 7-Dec-10 8:12am

William Arnold

Updated 7-Dec-10 8:35am

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Slacker007 7-Dec-10 14:35pm

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William Arnold · Answer 1 · 2010-12-08T05:17:00

Solution 2

I changed the Character Set in the Project Properties from "use Multi-Byte" to "use Unicode" and I got the new colors on my push button control. Go figure.

Posted 8-Dec-10 5:17am

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#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2010-12-07T08:38:00

Solution 1

The button appearance in MFC is controlled by the current theme running on the underlying OS (or at least it used to be that way a few years ago).

If it's still that way, if you want to change a button's appearance, you have derive a new class and override the OnPaint event.

Posted 7-Dec-10 8:38am

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William Arnold 7-Dec-10 16:37pm

That's how I remember it too but it appears to be different now with the Office and Visual Studio visual styles and colors and the Advanced Features. I seem to be getting different pushbutton backgrounds and styles in resource created dialogs depending on the application settings in the wizard. I just wondered if their is a chart or docoumentation on what gets generated based on the settings.

#realJSOP 7-Dec-10 17:33pm

It should still work the same way. You can always turn off Windows theme support in the app.