Background color of Dialog

[act_x]

How can I change the background color of a dialog ?

[Harsha Gopal]

You can go to the WM_PAINT (OnPaint()) of the dialog and add the following code CRect rect; CBrush brush(RGB(100, 0, 0)); dc.GetWindow()->GetWindowRect(&rect); ScreenToClient(&rect); dc.FillRect(&rect, &brush); dc is CPaint dc(this); Harsha ---------------------------------- http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~hpg ----------------------------------

[kochhar]

One way is to override OnCtlColor(), as follows: (1) In your message map, add: ON_WM_CTLCOLOR() (2) Then, add the following function to your Dialog class: (replace CMyDialog with whatever is the proper name in your case) HBRUSH CMyDialog::OnCtlColor(CDC *pDC,CWnd *pWnd,UINT nCtlColor) { HBRUSH hbr = CDialog::OnCtlColor(pDC,pWnd,nCtlColor); if(nCtlColor == CTLCOLOR_DLG) { // Dialog background color (Blue) hbr = CreateSolidBrush(RGB(0,0,255)); return hbr; } return hbr; } You can use this method to change the color of pretty much any element of your dialog.