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I have frame/form inherited from CExtNCW. All theme changes are taking palce correctly. Now I need to get the background color of the frame/form. Earlier we were using GetSysColor(COLOR_WINDOW). Now I have modified to g_PaintManager->GetColor(COLOR_WINDOW). With this change I am not getting the actual background color of the form painted using the g_PaintManager. Do I have to use COLOR_BTNFACE? Please provide me all the mapping of colors that needs to be used when Prof-UI paint manager has been installed.

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Thanks. This is usefull information.

The 2000/XP paint managers are based on the color indices defined in the CExtPaintManager::e_translated_colors_t enumeration. The 2003/2005 paint managers are based both on the same color indices but their specific indices are defined in the CExtPaintManagerOffice2003::e_2003_colors_t enumeration. You can see how all the color constants are initialized in the CExtPaintManager::InitTranslatedColors() method and it is overridden in other paint managers. The most of 2003/2005 color values are computed depending on two color values called an accent color and a background color in the Windows XP user interface theme API and the ThemeColorizer sample just substitutes these two root color values. The Office 2007 themes in fact is a colorized version of the Office 2003 theme plus a set of bitmap based painting algorithms for such UI items as push/check/radio buttons, combo boxes and non client window areas.

You can always get paint manager colors using the g_PaintManager->GetColor() method rather than ::GetSysColor(), but please note some UI parts are painted using a gradient. As for the background gradient colors, they are defined in InitTranslatedColors() as _2003CLR_GRADIENT_DARK and _2003CLR_GRADIENT_LIGHT constants.