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Right now, I am using the theme "Office2007 R3 Obsidian" at my application.

But under this theme, CExtPropertyGridTipBar is not readable because its text is black and its background is very dark gray..

Can you give me some tips to change color of either text or background in CExtPropertyGridTipBar ?

Thanks.

Do Park

We changed the text color to white in the CExtPropertyGridTipBar control bar in the Office 2007 Black theme . Please update the following method

void CExtPropertyGridTipBar::DoPaint( CDC * pDC )
{
	ASSERT_VALID( this );
	ASSERT_VALID( pDC );
CExtPaintManager * pPM = PmBridge_GetPM();
CRect rcClient;
	GetClientRect( &rcClient );
CExtMemoryDC dc( pDC, &rcClient );
	if(		(! pPM->GetCb2DbTransparentMode( this ) )
		||	(! pPM->PaintDockerBkgnd(
				true,
				dc,
				this
				)
			)
		)
		dc.FillSolidRect(
			&rcClient,
			pPM->GetColor(
				CExtPaintManager::CLR_3DFACE_OUT
				)
			);
CRect rcDraw = rcClient;
	rcDraw.top += m_nSeparatorHeight;
	if(		rcDraw.left >= rcDraw.right
		||	rcDraw.top >= rcDraw.bottom
		)
		return;
	pPM->PaintResizableBarChildNcAreaRect(
		dc,
		rcDraw,
		this
		);
	rcDraw.DeflateRect( 5, 3 );
	if(		rcDraw.left >= rcDraw.right
		||	rcDraw.top >= rcDraw.bottom
		)
		return;
CExtSafeString str = PropertyNameGet();
	if( str.IsEmpty() )
		return;
int nOldBkMode = dc.SetBkMode( TRANSPARENT );

COLORREF clrText =
		pPM->QueryObjectTextColor(
			dc,
			true,
			false,
			false,
			false,
			(CObject*)this
			);
	if( clrText == COLORREF(-1L) )
		clrText =
			pPM->GetColor(
				COLOR_BTNTEXT,
				(CObject*)this
				);

COLORREF clrOldTextColor =
		dc.SetTextColor( clrText );
CFont * pOldFont =
		dc.SelectObject(
			&pPM->m_FontBold
			);
CRect rcMeasure( 0, 0, 0, 0 );
	dc.DrawText(
		LPCTSTR(str),
		str.GetLength(),
		&rcMeasure,
		DT_SINGLELINE|DT_LEFT|DT_TOP|DT_END_ELLIPSIS|DT_CALCRECT
		);
	dc.DrawText(
		LPCTSTR(str),
		str.GetLength(),
		&rcDraw,
		DT_SINGLELINE|DT_LEFT|DT_TOP|DT_END_ELLIPSIS
		);
	str = PropertyDescriptionGet();
	if( ! str.IsEmpty() )
	{
		rcDraw.top += rcMeasure.Height() + 3;
		if(		rcDraw.left < rcDraw.right
			&&	rcDraw.top < rcDraw.bottom
			)
		{
			dc.SelectObject( 
				&pPM->m_FontNormal
				);
			dc.DrawText(
				LPCTSTR(str),
				str.GetLength(),
				&rcDraw,
				DT_LEFT|DT_TOP|DT_WORDBREAK
				);
		}
	} // if( ! str.IsEmpty() )
	dc.SelectObject( pOldFont );
	dc.SetTextColor( clrOldTextColor );
	dc.SetBkMode( nOldBkMode );
}

This code is working perfect.

Thanks.

Do Park