Re: Changing the Colour of the Form's Title Bar [BCB3]

[Daniel Hallmark <dgh@scott.net>]

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Peter Harpas wrote:

> I am trying to change the color of the forms title bar from whatever to red.
> I thought this would be easy but...


Well there was a string of posts just a couple weeks ago about changing 
the color of a progress bar so if you still have those you might want to 
go back and look at them as the methods will be similar.  The title bar 
colors (as well as menu colors and a lot of other things) are not handled 
directly by BCB but are actually windows system colors.  That way when 
you change your desktop settings (i.e. pick a new theme) all of your 
windows will use the same color for their title bars etc...

What I'm getting at is that it is fairly easy to change the system color 
which is used for rendering title bars.  However, this will change the 
color for the title bars on all windows, not just the form you desire.  
The functions that do this are GetSysColor() and SetSysColors in the 
win32 API.  If there is a way to change just a single window's titlebar 
color it's beyond me ;)

Daniel Hallmark