HOWTO: Gray Text of Subclassed Button or Static Text Control

• Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK)
• Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK)

SUMMARY

A control is a child window that is responsible for processing keyboard, mouse, focus, and activation messages, among others. A control paints itself and processes text strings. The color of the text in a button or static text control is automatically changed to gray when the control is disabled with the EnableWindow function. However, If an application subclasses a control to process WM_PAINT messages for the control, the application can use the GrayString function to change the text color.

Keywords          : kbButton kbCtrl kbNTOS kbStaticCtrl kbGrpUser kbWinOS 
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Last Reviewed: March 5, 1999