在 MFC 中更改静态文本颜色

Question

I am trying to change the color of static text (and also checkbox items) in a dialog window in my MFC application.

Following this ( MFC - change text color of a cstatic text control ) and similar suggestions, I did the following on ON_WM_CTLCOLOR() message:

HBRUSH CMyDialog::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd *pWnd, UINT nCtlColor)
{
      pDC->SetTextColor(RGB(255, 0, 0));
      return (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(NULL_BRUSH);
}

The problem is that this only affects edit text boxes and not static text or checkboxes. those still have black texts.

I also tried to look for sth similar to winapi's WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC message as that worked well in win32 applications but did not find any equivalent in MFC. Any idea how to change the color of the static texts and checkbox text?

Answer 1

This works for me:

Put this in the message map:

ON_WM_CTLCOLOR()

And implement something like this:

HBRUSH CSomeDlg::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor)
{
  HBRUSH hbr = __super::OnCtlColor(pDC, pWnd, nCtlColor);

  if (pWnd->GetDlgCtrlID() == IDC_SOMESTATIC)
  {
    // display the static control IDC_SOMESTATIC in red
    pDC->SetTextColor(RGB(255, 0, 0));
  }

  return hbr;
}

Answer 2

When you add a Static Text control from the Toolbox, it will get the ID IDC_STATIC. You need to rename this ID to something else, and then use OnCtlColor. Assuming you name it IDC_STATIC_1 , In OnCtlColor , use:

case IDC_STATIC_1:
    pDC->SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT);
    pDC->SetTextColor(RGB(100,110,120);