Recommended Reading

• Microsoft Corporation. The Designed for Microsoft Windows logo requirements, "Accessibility and User Interface."

Provides the requirements for using system colors, for using the proper foreground/background system color combinations, and for ensuring compatibility with the High Contrast option.

• Petzold, Charles. Programming Windows, Fifth Edition. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1998.

Chapter 9, "Child Window Controls," describes system colors, windows background brushes, and the WM_CTLCOLORBTN message.