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Simple way to change dialog's background and text colors

Posted by Nikolay Sokratov on February 8th, 1999
If you want to change background or text color of your dialog box or form view window you can call CWinApp::SetDialogBkColor(COLORREF clrCtlBk, COLORREF clrCtlText) function. The first argument of the function is background color, second is text color. Call this member function from within the InitInstance member function to set the default background and text color for dialog boxes and message boxes within your application. For example, following code sets all application's dialogs to display a red background and a green text. 
BOOL CMyApp::InitInstance()
{
	...
	// lets set red background and green text for our dialogs
	SetDialogBkColor(RGB(255, 0, 0), RGB(0, 255, 0));
	...
}

Last updated: 13 May 1998

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