Does SetBackgroundColour() on a button not apply in Windows 7?

wxPython Users
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Just want to get confirmation on this from others, because I am
developing on WinXP but tried some code on Windows 7 and whereas in XP
the button's background color is set, on Windows 7 it doesn't do
anything. I guess that's just the new OS's native behavior?

(I have not tested at all on Windows Vista, but would guess it is more
like Windows 7 in this regard).

I'm trying to make something like a bitmap toggle button, but a really
small one, and I feel the "toggled" visual effect isn't strong enough
at that size to provide the user good visual feedback, and so want to
change the background color. But I need a cross-platform/OS solution.
Maybe I'll resort to swapping the button's bitmap instead, but wanted
to check into this first.

Thanks,
Che

2

Yes, that is most likely. It also would not normally work on XP but when the bg color is set then wx puts the widget in owner-drawn mode and wx draws the button. It could be that the native button on Win7 does not allow owner-drawn mode or something like that.

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On 10/29/10 10:33 AM, C M wrote:

Just want to get confirmation on this from others, because I am
developing on WinXP but tried some code on Windows 7 and whereas in XP
the button's background color is set, on Windows 7 it doesn't do
anything. I guess that's just the new OS's native behavior?

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