How do I set the font and color for a group box caption using Win32

Question

I am stuck with WIN32 ( no .NET or anything managed )

Answer 1

Well you set the font using the normal way of setting control fonts. Send a WM_SETFONT message in your window initialisation using a HFONT you created with CreateFont. e.g.

SendDlgItemMessage(hDlg, IDC_STATIC, WM_SETFONT, (WPARAM)hFont, TRUE);

Then as pointed out you need to use the WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC notification to set the actual color.

case WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC:
if(GetDlgItem(hDlg, IDC_STATIC) == (HWND)lParam)
{
    HDC hDC = (HDC)wParam;

    SetBkColor(hDC, GetSysColor(COLOR_BTNFACE));
    SetTextColor(hDC, RGB(0, 0xFF, 0));
    SetBkMode(hDC, TRANSPARENT);

    return (INT_PTR)CreateSolidBrush(GetSysColor(COLOR_BTNFACE));

}
break;

Although you really should only create the solid brush once and delete it when the dialog goes away because you will end up with a leak.