DrawThemeText always draws black text

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From: "Lars C. Hassing" <lars.c.hassing@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 23 Feb 2007 00:18:07 -0800

The DrawThemeText documentation says:
"Draws text using the color and font defined by the visual style."

So I would expect a caption text in the default Windows XP blue theme
to be white with black shadow.
But it is black with black shadow.
If I use MXCS_INACTIVE the shadow correctly disappears but the text is
still black (not white (grey)).
The font, however, seems to be OK.

DrawThemeBackground (hTheme, hDC, WP_MAXCAPTION, MXCS_ACTIVE, &r,
NULL);
DrawThemeText (hTheme, hDC, WP_MAXCAPTION, MXCS_ACTIVE, L"My
Caption", -1, DT_VCENTER | DT_SINGLELINE | DT_LEFT | DT_NOPREFIX, 0,
&r);

I have tried SetTextColor with no luck.
/Lars

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