Changing Background color in a XP Style Button, Changing Background color in a XP Style Button

Hello to everybody,
using MASM32 I have made a simple window with an XP Style button to understand how to controls the various properties of it.
I have spent a lot of time in trying to change the background color of this button because it appears with a white frame around as showed in the attached file.

Is there anyone who knows how to do it?

Thank you in advance for your help.


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Hi

Yes this works with ButtonEx control
This Lib is from CObject and works fine


greets,
ragdog

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Hello ragdog,
thank you very much for your reply and for your important help.
I went thrugh the asm code you attached and I found full reconstruction of the buttons behaviours. This is great because I can learn many things about windows controls.
In my simple code I haven't used the dialog window construction but the CreateWindowEx function for the window creation. Attached you can find the source code.
I think that there is a simplest way to obtain the white frame around the XP Style Button to be in the same color of the window background.
Looking to the MSDN I found that when an XP Style Button is being used in a window, the NM_CUSTOMDRAW notification should occurs to the parent window procedure. If this happen then many button behaviours can be controlled.
I have spent a lot of time to find out the way to obtain this notification without result.
I know that I'm making something wrong but I don't understand what.
Can you give me any help about?
Thank you in advance.
Danychip

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Dear ragdog,
still me.
I would like to tell you that I have found the solution on my first question.
I have handled the NM_CUSTOMDRAW notification and I have invoked the DrawThemeParentBackground function to have the gray frame beside the button to be in the same color of the window background.
Below is showed the result.
I'll write another answer to attach the source code.
Thank you again for your kind help.
Danychip

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Here is the source code.


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