get background color

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Since i am trying to put text (CDC) on a Cstatic (which looks bluish on my screen) I would like to set the background color of CDC for the TextOut to be the same as the label color. I tried doing the following in the label class but of course its incorrect. HOw do I get the color of the label so I can SetBkColor of the CDC?

		COLORREF cl = GetBkColor(GetDC());

GetBkColor' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'class CDC *' to 'struct HDC__ *'

thanks, sb

Viorel

If this does not help:

COLORREF cl = GetDC()->GetBkColor();

nor

COLORREF cl = m_cMyLabel.GetDC()->GetBkColor();

then you can try this:

COLORREF cl = (COLORREF)GetSysColor(COLOR_3DFACE);

Michael Dunn

Those calls to GetDC() are bad - you need to release every DC you get.

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Viorel

Michael Dunn wrote:

Those calls to GetDC() are bad - you need to release every DC you get.

You are right -- explicit releasing should be preferable. Actually MFC is able to release various handles at idle time. Values returned by GetDC and other functions are temporary objects which are stored in a collection. They a released between message processing.