General Solution for a Transparent Control
Discover a very simple, integrated method to make a control, such as static, button, sliderctrl, and progress control transparent in a dialog box.
Discover a very simple, integrated method to make a control, such as static, button, sliderctrl, and progress control transparent in a dialog box.
Explore the challenges of developing an MFC application to use on Vista and non-Vista platforms in the context of Vista's new Command Link Button style.
Enhance your application interface by using a push button that allows you to select its colors.
Learn about a set of control-derived classes for a colorful presentation by using XP-styled hottracked controls with themed gradient buttons.
Create an owner-draw bitmap button and a frame for the title bar in one class.
Create round SysMenu buttons and learn how to do flicker-free painting in the caption and more. (New features were added.)
How to create theme-aware, owner-draw controls that are implemented by using the native Win32 API, rather than MFC.