Changins a brush's background color

[cjqp]

How do I change a brush's background color?

cjqp

[Insane_Magician]

cjqp, I looked for answers to your question, and came up with nothing, do you mean "How do I change a control's background color?"

[cjqp]

No, here (this is from Dan Appleman's API book):
-Under PaintRgn-
"This function fills the specified region using the current brush background color."

cjqp

[Insane_Magician]

Ok I looked in my giant VB API book and I found what you need to use: 'SetBkColor' will set the background for a brush. Here's a few links I found that do this, but I'm not sure what your doing:
http://www.listensoftware.com/hrxp/c...?contentid=581
http://www.vbapihelpline.de/ref/func...Color&Letter=s Last link is in German, but if you look at the code you should get the idea
http://www.developersdex.com/vb/mess...p13.phx.gbl%3E On this 1, ctrl+f to find ''SetBkColor"
I hope this gives you a decent idea or direction of where to go.

[cjqp]

Thanks for the help so far! What I'm trying to do is set up a program that will color another window's bg. I have tried the SetBkColor/Mode API, and through what I have discovered I need:

SetBkMode Form1.hdc, 2
SetBkColor Form1.hdc, RGB(0, 0, 255)
 
Dim hBrush As Long
hBrush = CreateSolidBrush(RGB(0, 0, 255))
 
SetBkColor GetDC(hBrush), RGB(0, 0, 255)
SelectObject Form1.hdc, hBrush
DeleteObject hBrush
 
dargb = CreateRectRgn(0, 0, 1024, 1024)
PaintRgn Form1.hdc, dargb

This won't color the form, but commenting out the SelectObject line will color the form the selected FillColor.

Any other ideas?

cjqp

[Insane_Magician]

I'm still looking, here's an example of coloring a component using CShape, mabey you could use that some how?
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_set_frame_backcolor.html
Using the '[Form].BackColor' you can directly change the form's background without using brushes, but not sure how to do so for a different app. http://www.visualbasicforum.com/showthread.php?t=133832
And finally this example looked the most intresting, yet I can't figure out what message needs to be sent instead of "TVM_SETBKCOLOR", so you may have to give it some time. http://www.vb-helper.com/tut10.htm I looked pretty hard and it seems like this topic is a lil scarce on resources. There's plenty of tuts on how to change the backgound color of controls but not the actual forms. Good luck!