Drawing simple shapes in a dialog box control???

[nexius]

Hi

I'm trying to figure out how to use CPen, CBrush, etc in a dialog box control like say, a picture or a static text object.

Is this even possible?

I can draw it on the dialog box itself but I'd like to restrict it to a certain part of it.

Any help appreciated

 

[woja]

You'd need to subclass the control you're using to draw in and override its [tt]Paint[/tt] method.

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Roger
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[nexius]

Alright I figured it out...

I used something along these lines for anyone that maybe searched and found this thread:

CPaintDC dc(this);
CRect rect(5,10,150,170);
CBrush brush(COLORREF(0x0000BBBB));

CWnd *lpStaticWnd;
CRect static_rect;
lpStaticWnd = GetDlgItem(IDC_STATIC1);
lpStaticWnd -> GetWindowRect(&static_rect);
ScreenToClient(&static_rect);
dc.IntersectClipRect(&static_rect);
dc.FillRect(&rect,&brush);