Re: Value Based Colorization of Dialog Controls

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mcdesigns@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
I'm currently working with an MFC dialog box that displays numerical
data dynamically from a remote server in a series of text control
boxes. I'd like to be able to change the background color of these
boxes based upon the values in the boxes.

So far, I've been able to change the default color of the background of
the entire dialog box and modify all text colors. However, modifying
colors for specific boxes and making changes based on values called
from those boxes is a bit challenging for me. If anyone could give me
any tips or ideas on how I might approach this, I would be very
grateful.

Kind regards, Marcus


You should handle a WM_CTLCOLOR message in dialog box. Editboxes sends this message to its parent window for painting parameters.

Asko.
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