Color

[Technocrat]

How I change the background color on a read only edit box?

[Chris]

juz detect the WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC message inside the WndProc will do...

case WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC:
    // Change the static control background color
    // Ref.
    // wParam - handle to static control DC (HDC)
    // lParam - handle to static control handle (HWND)
    
    if ((HWND)lParam == hWndEdit1)
    {
        // Change text color
        SetTextColor((HDC)wParam, RGB(255, 0, 255));
        // Change background color
        SetBkMode((HDC)wParam, TRANSPARENT);
        return (long)hBrush2;
    }
    break; 

regards,

[Technocrat]

Thanks it worked great after I figured out what hBrush was doing.

[Chris]

lol... the return hBrush is important.