How to change the background colour of an MFC radio button

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I have some radio buttons (CButtons) which I have placed in a CWnd which is then diplayed on a CDialog.

The background colour of the radio button is black, not the usual windows dialog background colour. How can I make the background colour of the radio button in the CWnd the same as the background colour of the CDialog?

This is my code to create the CWnd and the radio buttons:

CWnd *ctlGroupBox = new CWnd;
CButton *rdo1 = new CButton;
CButton *rdo2 = new CButton;

ctlGroupBox->Create(_T("BUTTON"),
		_T("Pizza Size"),
		WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | BS_GROUPBOX,
		CRect(50, 10, 200, 160),
		this,
		15);

rdo1->Create(_T("Large1"),
	        WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON,
	        CRect(40, 80, 120, 140), ctlGroupBox, 0x16);
rdo2->Create(_T("Large2"),
	        WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | BS_AUTOCHECKBOX,
                CRect(40, 130, 120, 140), ctlGroupBox, 0x16);

Posted 7-Jun-11 3:24am

Jackie Lloyd

Updated 7-Jun-11 3:41am

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2011-06-07T03:52:00

Solution 1

Don't you want to use CRadioButton instead of CButton?

Posted 7-Jun-11 3:52am

#realJSOP

Updated 7-Jun-11 3:54am

v2

Comments

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 7-Jun-11 10:11am

Sounds reasonable enough! 5+

Albert Holguin 7-Jun-11 11:57am

CRadioButtons don't exist

Albert Holguin 7-Jun-11 11:55am

there's no such thing in C++/MFC, a radio button is a CButton with the radio property

SenAPI · Answer 2 · 2011-06-07T06:39:00

derive a class from CButton and do code in ON_WM_ERASEBKGND()
example:

class CMyButton : public CButton
{
    DECLARE_DYNAMIC(CMyButton)
public:
    CMyButton();
    virtual ~CMyButton();
protected:
    DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
    afx_msg BOOL OnEraseBkgnd(CDC* pDC);
    afx_msg void OnPaint();
};

// CMyButton
IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CMyButton, CButton)
CMyButton::CMyButton()
{
}
CMyButton::~CMyButton()
{
}
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyButton, CButton)
    ON_WM_ERASEBKGND()
    ON_WM_PAINT()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
// CMyButton message handlers
BOOL CMyButton::OnEraseBkgnd( CDC* pDC )
{
    CRect Rect;
    GetClientRect( Rect );
    pDC->FillSolidRect( Rect, RGB( 255, 0, 0));
    return TRUE;
}
void CMyButton::OnPaint()
{
    CPaintDC dc(this); // device context for painting
    // TODO: Add your message handler code here
    // Do not call CButton::OnPaint() for painting messages
}