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I have a control that is a set size on a dialog. The data that the control displays generally does not take up the entire control. Before bringing in Prof-UIS I would get the dialog brush through a system call:

    hbr = GetSysColorBrush(COLOR_3DFACE);

and paint the "background" or empty areas with that brush.

How do I paint the proper background theme in my control when using Profi-UIS?

As well, how do we get a standard CFile dialog to appear in the correct theme?

Thanks
Jon

Forgot the details: Profi-UIS 2.80 and Dev Studio 2005.

(PS: It would be nice to be able to edit our own posts so that we don’t have to keep replying to ourselves :>)

I should also add that the entire control is being painted via a single GDI+ object. Therefore I need to paint the background onto a GDI+ surface.

Jon

The background of all controls and dialogs is based on bitmaps and gradients, which depend on the current paint manager (theme). For some themes it is a gradient fill, for other ones it is a solid color fill (painted with FillSolidRect() method).

Your custom controls should paint a valid background which is compatible with the dialog background and current theme. Here is how your OnPaint() may look:

void CYourWnd::OnPaint() 
{
    ASSERT_VALID( this );
    CPaintDC dcPaint( this );
    CRect rcClient;
    GetClientRect( &rcClient );
    if( rcClient.IsRectEmpty() )
        return;

    CExtMemoryDC dc(
        &dcPaint,
        &rcClient
        );

    CRgn rgnClient;
    if( rgnClient.CreateRectRgnIndirect( &rcClient ) )
        dc.SelectClipRgn( &rgnClient );

    // draw themed background first
    bool bTransparent = false;
    if( g_PaintManager->GetCb2DbTransparentMode( this ) )
    {
        CExtPaintManager::stat_ExcludeChildAreas(
            dc,
            GetSafeHwnd(),
            CExtPaintManager::stat_DefExcludeChildAreaCallback
            );
        if( g_PaintManager->PaintDockerBkgnd( true, dc, this ) )
            bTransparent = true;
    }
    if( ! bTransparent )
        dc.FillSolidRect(
            &rcClient,
            g_PaintManager->GetColor( CExtPaintManager::CLR_3DFACE_OUT, this )
            );


    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // PLACE CONTROL PAINTING CODE HERE
    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


    if( rgnClient.GetSafeHandle() != NULL )
        dc.SelectClipRgn( &rgnClient );    
    g_PaintManager->OnPaintSessionComplete( this );
}

As for the file dialog, the is no theme support for it at the moment.

Thanks for the paintmanager info, that worked well for me.

The file dialog is a pretty major issue for us. Is there no way to get a skinned file dialog at all (not using the CFile MFC class?)

How are people handling this in their applications when the file open and file save look jarringly different from the rest of the program?

Thanks
Jon

Themed system dialogs are in our to-do list but it is unlikely that we will implement this in the next two releases. There are options, however. You could do this yourself using the following approach suggested by Leshchuk Aleksey. You can also contact our custom software development division so that they will implement this right now. In the later case, please contact Alex Cooper at info@prof-uis.com.