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 above answer will work only if you don't have a tab inside dialog box it will color background of dialog box other the tab portion. For the tab portion you have to create a new derived class with base class CTabCtrl.