Coloring the border of a property sheet

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Hi, I want to use a property sheet with 3 pages inside a colored dialog. I managed to create a dynamic property sheet inside the dialog. I could also change the color of the property page. But I cannot change the color of the border of the property sheet and it is still in the default windows dialog color. Could anyone help me to color it. I cannot use tab control(Otherwise it would be easy). Please help me. I also traversed the following link but it didnot work with me. :( Help! --> Problem with CPropertySheet[^]

Posted 28-Feb-11 1:03am

aravindkrgec

Updated 28-Feb-11 1:19am

Ramalinga Koushik

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mbue 10-Mar-11 10:07am

You cant change the drawing behaviour of a common control. The frame will been painted by the control themselves. The only thing you can do is subclassing and draw it by your own. But you will loose all windows design behaviours, because you cant do any kind of mixed paint mode.

aravindkrgec 11-Mar-11 6:35am

Ya that is true. Thanks for the response. But I can adjust with 98 model style. But the dirty look of the border of a property sheet made my GUI terrible. Now I can subclass all other control and make it more buetiful.

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aravindkrgec · Answer 1 · 2011-03-09T23:28:00

At last I made it. I could color the entire area of the property sheet. I implemented it by using the following code:

MIDL

newBrush1 = ::CreateSolidBrush(COLOR);
OldBrush = (HBRUSH)::SetClassLong(GetTabControl()->GetSafeHwnd(), GCL_HBRBACKGROUND, (LONG)newBrush1);

To change the background color of the tab, override the owner draw.

Ramalinga Koushik · Answer 2 · 2011-02-28T01:22:00

Solution 1

Have you tried just changing the border for the page (perhaps to "thin") in the properties when you open the page in the dialog editor?

Posted 28-Feb-11 1:22am