Re: Changing window background colour

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From: M.L.M.Veraart
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:49

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ee_d270@ceres.kingston.ac.uk (Richard D Knight) writes:


>Hi, my mian windows background colour is light gray, and I want my 
>child windows to have a standard white background, but when I create
>the windows, they all have a gray background. Can anyone tell me how to
>make the childwindow white?

>thanks

>ee_d270@king.ac.uk

If you register a new window class you can set the background color
to white. Then create the child windows using this class. An other possible
solution is to process the WM_ERASEBACKGROUND message for the child windows.

Mario Veraart
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Mario Veraart                  TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
email: rioj7@fel.tno.nl        The Hague       The Netherlands
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