How to customize title color for MFC ribbon bar

Question

In an MFC MDI with ribbon bar project created with AppWizard, how to change background color of title area?

Answer 1

Hi, @BorisM

Create a MFC class that inherits Class CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007 and rewrite OnDrawRibbonCaption.

Also, you need to redraw the title text and min/max/close buttons.

virtual void OnDrawRibbonCaption(
    CDC* pDC,
    CMFCRibbonBar* pBar,
    CRect rectCaption,
    CRect rectText) override
{
    
	CWnd* pWnd = pBar->GetParent();
	ASSERT_VALID(pWnd);
	CDrawingManager dm(*pDC);
	COLORREF clrBackground = RGB(0, 120, 215);
	
	dm.DrawRect(rectCaption, clrBackground, clrBackground);
	//redraw text and max,min button
	
}

BOOL CMFCApplicationApp::InitInstance()
{
......
CWinAppEx::InitInstance();
CMFCVisualManager::SetDefaultManager(RUNTIME_CLASS(CMyVisualStyleClass));

Best regards,

Minxin Yu

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