Text Color of a PUSHBUTTON Control in Windows API

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How do i change the text color of a PUSHBUTTON...??? Using Windows API.

Posted 31-Jan-12 7:37am

iamrohitsingh

Updated 31-Jan-12 9:57am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 31-Jan-12 13:56pm

What language, API and UI library do you use? Tag it.
--SA

ZurdoDev 31-Jan-12 16:12pm

Need way more specific details. Is this for a different application, one that you do not have control over?

iamrohitsingh 31-Jan-12 16:25pm

I am just developing a Calculator using WINDOWS API(NO MFC) ...And i want the color of calculators buttons to be different....how do i do that...???

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You need to subclass controls. Please read Create your own controls - the art of subclassing[^]

Posted 31-Jan-12 15:14pm

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Philippe Mori · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-31T14:19:00

Solution 1

Read Microsoft documentation:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb761849(v=vs.85).aspx[^]

By the way, this kind of thing is somehow hard to do with the API (and just a bit better with MFC) as message are sent to the parent windows instead of the control itself. This make it harder to make reusable controls.

WinForms (and WPF) are hundredth of time better for that. The color can be set directly in the designer or a single line of code is required to set the color in code.

Posted 31-Jan-12 14:19pm

Philippe Mori

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iamrohitsingh 1-Feb-12 7:37am

I have only programmed in WINDOWS API. I don't no MFC. If you can suggest me a good book to learn MFC or WPF

Christopher P Taylor 21-Jul-14 9:07am

Too bad the documentation you link to is totally incomprehensible. You're supposed to return a brush for drawing text? Does this control the background color or the text color? How does this relate to the fact that the button is supposed to be BS_OWNERDRAW anyway? It's enough to make a coder despair...