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Oren  yes but my needs is to change the background menu of a standard Win32
window.
I am not the owner of the window.
So is there any windows API for doing that ?
For example how changing Notepad window menu color ?

Sam

"Oren Halvani" <NoSpam@fdtd.com> a �crit dans le message de
news:40c74788@newsgroups.borland.com...
> hi Sam,
>
> put a panel on the form set it to a custom color and try the following
> it's for TStaticText but maybe could work also with TMainMenu...
> just try it out...
>
>
> Oren
> /*********************************************************/
> // earsing background...in form declaration
>
> protected: void __fastcall OnWmCtlColorStatic(TWMCtlColorStatic &Message);
>
> BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP
>       VCL_MESSAGE_HANDLER(WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC, TWMCtlColorStatic,
> OnWmCtlColorStatic)
> END_MESSAGE_MAP(TForm)
>
> // in form definition .cpp
> void __fastcall TForm1::OnWmCtlColorStatic(TWMCtlColorStatic &Message)
> {
>   if(Message.ChildWnd == StaticText1->Handle)
>     {
>       SetBkMode(Message.ChildDC, TRANSPARENT);
>       Message.Result = (long)GetStockObject(NULL_BRUSH);
>     }
>   else TForm::Dispatch(&Message);
> }
>
> __fastcall TForm1::TForm1(TComponent* Owner) : TForm(Owner)
> {
>   HWND statichwnd = StaticText1->Handle;
>   long exstyle = GetWindowLong(statichwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE);
>   exstyle = exstyle | WS_EX_TRANSPARENT;
>   SetWindowLong(statichwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, exstyle);
> }
>
>