SetDialogBkColor gives error c3861

[panioti]

I found lots of examples on how to change the dialog vbackground color--all the examples agree with each other.

BOOL CEzApp::InitInstance()
{
SetDialogBkColor(RGB(255, 255, 255), RGB(0, 0, 0));
LoadStdProfileSettings(); // Load standard INI file options (including MRU)
...

This gives me compiler error c3861 Identifier not found ...
What's wrong?

 

[panioti]

I am pleased that I can now answer my own question.
As usual, my question has omitted a critical detail--I am using .net 2003. SetDialogBkColor is not defined in .net. The color of individual controls is still handled by overriding CWnd::OnCtlColor. The color of the dialog view is now handled by processing the WM_CTLCOLORDLG message.

LRESULT CEz1View::OnCtlColorDlg( WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
return (long) hBrush[0];
}

This must be included in the MESSAGE_MAP:

ON_MESSAGE(WM_CTLCOLORDLG, OnCtlColorDlg)