Add drop shadow to a child dialog

[dSolariuM]

Hi, I want to add drop shadow to a child window... please help me. thank you.

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[Stephen Hewitt]

I will assume you're using MFC:

BOOL CShadowDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
CDialog::OnInitDialog();

// Add "About..." menu item to system menu.

// IDM\_ABOUTBOX must be in the system command range.
ASSERT((IDM\_ABOUTBOX & 0xFFF0) == IDM\_ABOUTBOX);
ASSERT(IDM\_ABOUTBOX < 0xF000);

CMenu\* pSysMenu = GetSystemMenu(FALSE);
if (pSysMenu != NULL)
{
	CString strAboutMenu;
	strAboutMenu.LoadString(IDS\_ABOUTBOX);
	if (!strAboutMenu.IsEmpty())
	{
		pSysMenu->AppendMenu(MF\_SEPARATOR);
		pSysMenu->AppendMenu(MF\_STRING, IDM\_ABOUTBOX, strAboutMenu);
	}
}

// Set the icon for this dialog.  The framework does this automatically
//  when the application's main window is not a dialog
SetIcon(m\_hIcon, TRUE);			// Set big icon
SetIcon(m\_hIcon, FALSE);		// Set small icon

// TODO: Add extra initialization here
**::SetClassLong(
	GetSafeHwnd(),
	GCL\_STYLE,
	::GetClassLong(GetSafeHwnd(), GCL\_STYLE) | CS\_DROPSHADOW/\*0x00020000\*/
	);**

return TRUE;  // return TRUE  unless you set the focus to a control

}

Note that CS_DROPSHADOW requires a Windows version >= XP. Note that after this code is run ALL dialogs will have shadows!

Steve

[nitin3]

Is it possible to set drop shadow for controls ?

[Stephen Hewitt]

I don't think so. You could always implement this functionality yourself however.

Steve

[balaji167]

I used this in my dialog, After that try to hide the dialog, Dialog is hiding but the shadow is not hiding. I am using ShowWindow(SW_HIDE).