Change Button Color

[peaslee]

I have been able to change the background of my dialog as well as the static controls, but now the "Close" button sticks out. How do I change the button color to match that of the dialog?

[Zen]

PEASLEE,   
Button (Control Library), MSDN
WM_CTLCOLORBTN Message

[peaslee]

Zen,

I found that earlier because a similar message works for static controls. I cannot get WM_CTLCOLORBTN to work. Some folks on the web say it has been eliminated, some that it requires an owner draw button, and some say it never worked.

What I would like would be a simple working example.

Thanks for the response.

[dedndave]

i don't remember ever seeing it work - lol

the button is a tough one - especially on windows 7 or later
the actual button window is a child of a child "worker" window
so, subclassing it is no easy task, either

i've found that, rather than subclassing, write your own button window   :t

[jj2007]

It's tricky indeed. Here they claim that buttons with any *push style can change colours, but I can't confirm that for Win7-64. Besides, notify/NM_CUSTOMDRAW is being proposed.

[MichaelW]

You could try changing the button style to one where you can control the color.

SetWindowLongPtr

And if you need to know what the style, or whatever, is GetWindowLongPtr.