MFC - change text color of a cstatic text control

Question

How do you change the text color of a CStatic text control? Is there a simple way other that using the CDC::SetTextColor?

thanks...

Answer 1

unfortunately you won't find a SetTextColor method in the CStatic class. If you want to change the text color of a CStatic you will have to code a bit more.

In my opinion the best way is creating your own CStatic-derived class (CMyStatic) and there cacth the ON_WM_CTLCOLOR_REFLECT notification message.

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyStatic, CStatic)
    //{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CMyStatic)
    ON_WM_CTLCOLOR_REFLECT()
    //}}AFX_MSG_MAP
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

HBRUSH CColorStatic::CtlColor(CDC* pDC, UINT nCtlColor) 
{
    pDC->SetTextColor(RGB(255,0,0)); 

    return (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(NULL_BRUSH);  
}

Obviously you can use a member variable and a setter method to replace the red color (RGB(255,0,0)).

Regards.