MFC - I want to add transparency and shading to the background of my Application but don't know how..

Question

Dear All,

I would like to add transparency and shading to my application written using MFC and Visual Studio 2008 Prof. At the moment I am using Ribbons which makes the app look good but the mainframe (is a CFormView based app) is terrible! I hate the grey background color and the blue titles on the groupboxes. Even changing the colors of the background (or event the fonts) does not improve much.. is still a plain 1 level 2d background..

would be great to add some transparency or some material effect.. I saw some codeguru projects on doing this for the buttons (adding the Aereo style) but nothing improving the standard groupboxes, label and window background.

Would anyone have a suggestion for this?

Many thanks!

Answer 1

I added a question on msdn social http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vclanguage/thread/5390d04e-79a5-4b1c-9ea8-b12c87b88ac3

by now nobody was able to answer it.. any help will be helpful!

Thanks, pengCC