checkbox caption

[subramanyeswari]

how to change the color of caption text for a checkbox?

[only coder]

WM_CTLCOLOR

[subramanyeswari]

Can i use WM_CTLCOLOR in oninitdialog function. I want to set the color of caption text of a checkbox before displaying dialog in VC++.

[Nelek]

I think is the best place to use it. In the constructor you may have error/assertion because the window is not already created so you dont have any possibility to access visual controls, m_hWnd will be NULL and give you problems. But in OnInitDialog all the objects are already created and it is called the very first time the dialog and its components are shown in the screen.

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[ThatsAlok]

subramanyeswari wrote:

Can i use WM_CTLCOLOR in oninitdialog function. I want to set the color of caption text of a checkbox before displaying dialog in VC++.

you have to regularly handle teh OnCtlColor message for coloring the check box, and have to use SetTextColor there!

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