How to change the button colors

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How to change the button colors

Use the following properties to change the button surface colors:

BackColor property to change the color of the button surface.

BackColorMouseOver property to change the color of the button surface when the mouse is over the button area.

BackColorPressed property to change the color of the button surface when this is pressed.

BackColorInterior property to change the color of the internal part of the button surface when a special effect is applied.

BackColorFocus property to change the color of the internal part of the button surface when this has the input focus.

BackColorDisabled property to change the color of the button surface when this is disabled.

BackColorContainer property to change the color of the area that surrounds the button: this property must be the same as the color of the form or dialog that contains the button.

HighlightColor property to change the color of the highlighted border of the button (if any).

ShadowColor property to change the color of the shadowed border of the button (if any).

Using the abmSetSurfaceColorDesc and abmGetSurfaceColorDesc functions you can have a better control over the 3D gradient rendering through the use of the SURFACE_COLOR_DESC data structure.

If you need to change all of the buttons color settings inside a container at once, you can use the abmContainerColorSetting.

Notes

This section doesn't cover the coloring of texts visible over the button because text-related procedures are described inside the How to put text over the button section.

This section doesn't cover the coloring of the following surfaces:

Vista's Aero style

Office 2003 style

Office 2007 style

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