Changing radio button internal color (area where check is)

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I was thinking of using mfc's radio button for some status lights in an application since the shape is essentially already what I want. Changing the color of the round portion of the radio button however, seems like not as trivial of a task as I assumed it might be. Does anyone know of any way of doing this other than overriding DrawItem()?

Problem with overriding DrawItem() is that essentially I'm having to recreate by hand the entire button just to override the color, seems like defeating the purpose of using that as a base.

Posted 6-Jun-11 5:41am

Albert Holguin

Updated 6-Jun-11 5:45am

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Resmi Anna 7-Jun-11 2:10am

did you try in OnCtlColor()
here you can set the color for radio button text, radio button text background, radio button control background. but you can not set color for that round frame of your radio button.

Albert Holguin 7-Jun-11 11:20am

You change most of the colors there except the one I want to change, the circular container itself...

Febil Chacko Thanikal 7-Jun-11 4:40am

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-SG/vssmartdevicesnative/thread/48afc8d3-8ecd-4280-bdc7-a3594745207d

Albert Holguin 7-Jun-11 11:24am

thanks for the link, but that's all stuff both me and resmi have already covered, pretty much sounds like drawing it myself is the only option... in which case its probably easier to make it a CStatic

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2011-06-09T03:37:00

Solution 1

you can subclass the control and make some ownerdrawn operations

Posted 9-Jun-11 3:37am

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Albert Holguin 9-Jun-11 10:27am

hmm... you mean override the DrawItem()? ...cause I'm pretty sure that's exactly what's already written in my question...

KarstenK · Answer 2 · 2011-06-09T04:33:00

Solution 2

but you are wrong. Read and unterstand this fine article:
Create your own controls - the art of subclassing[^][^]

Posted 9-Jun-11 4:33am

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Albert Holguin 9-Jun-11 10:50am

how am I wrong? ...and I see you insist on adding new solutions for every comment...

Albert Holguin 9-Jun-11 10:53am

...and thanks for the article, but I know how to do all that without wizards...

KarstenK 14-Jun-11 3:12am

You only need to extract the drawing code. Dont forget the Message Macros in the message map.

Sorry for "adding new solutions", i havnt answered a long question here..