IUIAutomationStylesPattern implementing issue - c++

I am trying to use uiautomation to get a color of an element of paint application.
I can easily access their size and state etc but i cant seem to find a way to get their background color? lets say i want to retrieve the color of the "new" button how do i do that?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh437282%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Here they did provide a property to retrieve the currentfillcolor property but it says that client application do not implement IUIAutomationStylesPattern interface. But then why did they provide it in the "UI Automation Client Programmers" section?
I have tried it but there is no IUIAutomationStylesPattern type available for me.
Can anyone help me in finding a way to make it work or if there's another way of approaching it?

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In other examples I've seen a method to extract the element by doing:
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EDIT:
I went further and I could get the <video> element just from a few websites, here's my method:
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The problem is that not every website gives you access to <video> tag elements, so for those websites I did the following code to make sure there were indeed no <video> tag elements in the source:
System::Diagnostics::Debug::Write(webBrowser1->DocumentText);
Then I didn't find any <video> tag element in the output, only a few websites provide me that. Why? How to really get and manipulate properly <video> tag elements in c++?
Then I didn't find any tag element in the output, only a few websites provide me that. Why?
Let me make an educated guess. For some of the pages you're referring to, the DOM is built dynamically and asynchronously. Which means, those <video> tags might simply not be there yet.
So, you might need to have some asynchronous polling logic in place that monitors DOM changes, specifically looking for <video> tags.
It might not be possible to come up with a 100% working solution to cover all cases, but have a look at my other post which deals with this problem.

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I have a CTreeCtrl and I filled it with content. Now I wanted to add checkboxes but JUST for certain ones. I've found the possibilty to activate checkboxes on the TreeCtrl with m_Tree.ModifyStyle(0, TVS_CHECKBOXES), but this adds a checkbox on each node/child on the whole Ctrl. Is it possible to turn this feature on, but just for certain ones?
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Easiest way to do this is explain in following link.
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/VC/microsoft.public.vc.mfc/2005-10/msg00454.html.
please go through and let me know if you are facing problem.
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I have a project where I'd like to have many wxPanel which are displayed or hide, depending the selection of the user. All panel are on the same position, only one is displayed at a time.
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One way which is really not proper is to user the wxNotebook, and then when you start the soft delete all tabs and then show the needed panel.
I have look around to try to have the panel on a "other" wxSmith window and then load it, like a class but haven't find anything good.
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See ya
"One way which is really not proper is to user the wxNotebook, and then when you start the soft delete all tabs and then show the needed panel."
Why not? I use that technique for AtomWeaver, and it works fine. The plus side is that you can design each page normally on a RAD GUI builder.
I've created a class called GUI_NotebookPageData that holds a pointer to a single notebook page. Create an array of these, holding info about all notebook pages.
Then, by index, or by name, get the info of the page you want to show/hide, and use wxNotebook's RemovePage()/InsertPage() methods.
This method is specially good for having several pages shown at the same time.
Actually it's possible to use external ressources with wxSmith, then it's very simple to manage the frames.
It create a derived class from wxPanel (or other window) on a new wxSmith window, easy to manage then just required to include it on the project.