How to change button text color in NM_CUSTOMDRAW (Win32 API question)

[Imperatorn]

On Wednesday, 17 March 2021 at 00:51:05 UTC, Vinod K Chandran 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 March 2021 at 19:42:26 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
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> At last, i found the answer myself. There is a  item called 
> dwDrawStage in NMCUSTOMDRAW structure. If  value of dwDrawStage 
> is equal to CDDS_PREERASE, call SetBkMode with transparent and 
> call SetTextColor. Then draw text  with DrawText function. And 
> finally, return CDRF_NOTIFYPOSTPAINT.  In short, do the color 
> changing process in pre-erase stage and return 
> CDRF_NOTIFYPOSTPAINT constant. As per MSDN, What this constant 
> means  is,
>>>> The control will notify the parent after painting an item. 
>>>> This occurs when the dwDrawStage of the NMCUSTOMDRAW 
>>>> structure equals CDDS_PREPAINT.

Good that you solved it, that wasn't what I thought the solution 
would be 👀

Was more than 10 years ago since I was "the king of win api" 😔