Hi, Thank you so much for your answers. I'm using C++. I
guess the controls are a bit different from VB, because
CButton does not have a .BackColor option (or anything
else like it). I'm now using the custom control option to
create a CStatic control, but it seems like there's no
function to specify its color either.

CButton is an MFC class (the reason that you are getting
confusing answers is that you posted in a .NET forum).

To get a custom-colored button in MFC you will have to
owner-draw it. Basically instead of leaving it up to the
system to draw the button for you, you will do it
yourself. Relax, it's not as hard as it sounds.

Basically you will just need to set the BS_OWNERDRAW style
(do this in your call to Create), and then override
DrawItem. There are a lot of utility methods that are
available to you that will draw whichever parts of the
button that you don't want to override, check out this
example for some pointers in the right direction:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/library/en-us/wcemfc/htm/cbutton_4.asp

(in the future, MFC questions would be better posted in
the vc.mfc newsgroup)

~ Andrew
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