Custom ComboBox with editable text possible?

[.paul.]

I found that WM_CTLCOLOREDIT could help me, from the docs:


How can i accomplish this? I'm searching to do it from the WndProc of my ComboBox, but don't know how to:


Just for the sake of of showing code, this is what i've tried in the last couple of minutes since i asked.

<DllImport("gdi32.dll")>
    Public Shared Function CreateSolidBrush(ByVal color As Integer) As IntPtr
    End Function
    Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As Message)
        If (m.Msg = &H133) Then
            Dim brush As IntPtr = CreateSolidBrush(RGB(255, 0, 0))
            m.Result = brush
        End If
        MyBase.WndProc(m)

    End Sub

Any advice?

Looking at what you've posted, you're calling CreateSolidBrush and returning a pointer to a brush. The docs text you quoted says it can be used to change the edit control (part of the Combo) colors and text. I think it wouldn't be possible to achieve what you're hoping for in that way. You're looking for a usable edit control, and what you've posted isn't that.