{ You cannot change the color of a standard TButton, since the windows button control always paints itself with the button color defined in the control panel. But you can derive derive a new component from TButton and handle the and drawing behaviour there. } unit ColorButton; interface uses Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms, Dialogs, StdCtrls, Buttons, ExtCtrls; type TDrawButtonEvent = procedure(Control: TWinControl; Rect: TRect; State: TOwnerDrawState) of object; TColorButton = class(TButton) private FCanvas: TCanvas; IsFocused: Boolean; FOnDrawButton: TDrawButtonEvent; protected procedure CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams); override; procedure SetButtonStyle(ADefault: Boolean); override; procedure CMEnabledChanged(var Message: TMessage); message CM_ENABLEDCHANGED; procedure CMFontChanged(var Message: TMessage); message CM_FONTCHANGED; procedure CNMeasureItem(var Message: TWMMeasureItem); message CN_MEASUREITEM; procedure CNDrawItem(var Message: TWMDrawItem); message CN_DRAWITEM; procedure WMLButtonDblClk(var Message: TWMLButtonDblClk); message WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK; procedure DrawButton(Rect: TRect; State: UINT); public constructor Create(AOwner: TComponent); override; destructor Destroy; override; property Canvas: TCanvas read FCanvas; published property OnDrawButton: TDrawButtonEvent read FOnDrawButton write FOnDrawButton; property Color; end; procedure Register; implementation procedure Register; begin RegisterComponents('Samples', [TColorButton]); end; constructor TColorButton.Create(AOwner: TComponent); begin inherited Create(AOwner); FCanvas := TCanvas.Create; end; destructor TColorButton.Destroy; begin inherited Destroy; FCanvas.Free; end; procedure TColorButton.CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams); begin inherited CreateParams(Params); with Params do Style := Style or BS_OWNERDRAW; end; procedure TColorButton.SetButtonStyle(ADefault: Boolean); begin if ADefault <> IsFocused then begin IsFocused := ADefault; Refresh; end; end; procedure TColorButton.CNMeasureItem(var Message: TWMMeasureItem); begin with Message.MeasureItemStruct^ do begin itemWidth := Width; itemHeight := Height; end; end; procedure TColorButton.CNDrawItem(var Message: TWMDrawItem); var SaveIndex: Integer; begin with Message.DrawItemStruct^ do begin SaveIndex := SaveDC(hDC); FCanvas.Lock; try FCanvas.Handle := hDC; FCanvas.Font := Font; FCanvas.Brush := Brush; DrawButton(rcItem, itemState); finally FCanvas.Handle := 0; FCanvas.Unlock; RestoreDC(hDC, SaveIndex); end; end; Message.Result := 1; end; procedure TColorButton.CMEnabledChanged(var Message: TMessage); begin inherited; Invalidate; end; procedure TColorButton.CMFontChanged(var Message: TMessage); begin inherited; Invalidate; end; procedure TColorButton.WMLButtonDblClk(var Message: TWMLButtonDblClk); begin Perform(WM_LBUTTONDOWN, Message.Keys, Longint(Message.Pos)); end; procedure TColorButton.DrawButton(Rect: TRect; State: UINT); var Flags, OldMode: Longint; IsDown, IsDefault, IsDisabled: Boolean; OldColor: TColor; OrgRect: TRect; begin OrgRect := Rect; Flags := DFCS_BUTTONPUSH or DFCS_ADJUSTRECT; IsDown := State and ODS_SELECTED <> 0; IsDefault := State and ODS_FOCUS <> 0; IsDisabled := State and ODS_DISABLED <> 0; if IsDown then Flags := Flags or DFCS_PUSHED; if IsDisabled then Flags := Flags or DFCS_INACTIVE; if IsFocused or IsDefault then begin FCanvas.Pen.Color := clWindowFrame; FCanvas.Pen.Width := 1; FCanvas.Brush.Style := bsClear; FCanvas.Rectangle(Rect.Left, Rect.Top, Rect.Right, Rect.Bottom); InflateRect(Rect, - 1, - 1); end; if IsDown then begin FCanvas.Pen.Color := clBtnShadow; FCanvas.Pen.Width := 1; FCanvas.Brush.Color := clBtnFace; FCanvas.Rectangle(Rect.Left, Rect.Top, Rect.Right, Rect.Bottom); InflateRect(Rect, - 1, - 1); end else DrawFrameControl(FCanvas.Handle, Rect, DFC_BUTTON, Flags); if IsDown then OffsetRect(Rect, 1, 1); OldColor := FCanvas.Brush.Color; FCanvas.Brush.Color := Color; FCanvas.FillRect(Rect); FCanvas.Brush.Color := OldColor; OldMode := SetBkMode(FCanvas.Handle, TRANSPARENT); FCanvas.Font.Color := clBtnText; if IsDisabled then DrawState(FCanvas.Handle, FCanvas.Brush.Handle, nil, Integer(Caption), 0, ((Rect.Right - Rect.Left) - FCanvas.TextWidth(Caption)) div 2, ((Rect.Bottom - Rect.Top) - FCanvas.TextHeight(Caption)) div 2, 0, 0, DST_TEXT or DSS_DISABLED) else DrawText(FCanvas.Handle, PChar(Caption), - 1, Rect, DT_SINGLELINE or DT_CENTER or DT_VCENTER); SetBkMode(FCanvas.Handle, OldMode); if Assigned(FOnDrawButton) then FOnDrawButton(Self, Rect, TOwnerDrawState(LongRec(State).Lo)); if IsFocused and IsDefault then begin Rect := OrgRect; InflateRect(Rect, - 4, - 4); FCanvas.Pen.Color := clWindowFrame; FCanvas.Brush.Color := clBtnFace; DrawFocusRect(FCanvas.Handle, Rect); end; end; end.