change the background color of a dialog box mfc

Question

I\'m trying to change the background color of a dialog box (win 7, vs2010,c++). I tried to catch WM_CTLCOLOR ,WM_ERASEBKGND and change the color. I manged to change in this

Answer 1

The better way will be to override WM_CTLCOLOR, background of controls such as STATIC will be fill with your color too.

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(YourDlg, CDialogEx)
    ON_WM_CTLCOLOR()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
...
HBRUSH YourDlg::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor)
{
    return (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);
}