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I am new to MFC, need to change the existing design of our legacy MFC app. unlike the standard MFC sharp edged buttons, text box etc. I need curve edged design for the whole app. please suggest if there is any way I can achieve this.

Curve edges as shown in the image, so far I couldn't achieve this. Please let me know if it is possible or not through MFC. It is not possible with BCGSoft also Screenshot

left is current, right is the required UI

praharshith budeti
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    Yes, that's possible. No, it's not easily possible. You'll be writing **a lot** of code. And you need to know MFC inside and out. And Windows API programming. – IInspectable Feb 15 '22 at 17:02
  • I don't see any curved edges in the controls shown in the pic, they are the standard "flat" controls of the last Windows versions. What do you mean and what do you want exactly? Try setting the toolkit version in the build options, you can achieve an "old" look, though I'm not sure about its acceptance. – Constantine Georgiou Feb 15 '22 at 18:43
  • @con The edit controls have rounded corners with fairly small corner radii. Those aren't sharp edges as used by the standard edit control (though I have not checked how they look in Windows 11). – IInspectable Feb 15 '22 at 19:34
  • @ConstantineGeorgiou I have updated the current and required UI, the difference is the older ones look outdated as per the MFC standards. my doubt is if i can achieve the new look with MFC. – praharshith budeti Feb 16 '22 at 04:57
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    See [Enabling Visual Styles](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/cookbook-overview) on how to use the common controls library version 6. No rounded corners there either, but those have the familiar look of the "new" controls introduced with Windows Vista (I believe). – IInspectable Feb 16 '22 at 07:19
  • @IInspectable it was introduced with XP already. – Jabberwocky Feb 16 '22 at 07:43
  • Thanks for all your valuable comments, i got some progress with the attached link. Enabling Visual Styles was really helpful. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4979802/visual-studio-2010-mfc-dialogs-aero-style – praharshith budeti Feb 17 '22 at 09:24
  • My two cents: Use `CMFCButton` instead of `CButton`. It gives you a little more control over its appearance. – sergiol Feb 17 '22 at 11:36
  • I think you should look into NM_CUSTOMDRAW notification code sent to a parent window (dialog). Visual styles should be enabled. Try https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/nm-customdraw-button to start with. – JohnCz Feb 20 '22 at 16:20

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