I paint the background of a window by setting the background color in the WNDCLASS structure using 'CreateSolidBrush(rgb)'. Now I want to change that color after the fact.

Is there a means of getting the rgb value from the solid brush handle (which one can get from the WNDCLASS structure)?

Even better, is there a means of changing the color of the given solid brush WITHOUT creating a new solid brush?

Do I have to somehow delete this solid brush before creating another one similar to objects (to avoid resource/memory depeletion)?

It would be great if I could simply
(1) take the handle of the window
(2) Get the WNDCLASS info using that API function
(3) Get the handle of the solid brush
(4) Get the color of the solid brush
(5) change the color of the solid brush
(6) send a repaint