1. Coloured Text in Controls
I want to change the text colour of controls in Win32lib such as
EditText and labels. Have read old discussions which seem to indicate
this is not possible, or leastways not easy. Is this still the case ?
Cheers
Rangi
2. Re: Coloured Text in Controls
Hi Rangi,
This is possible to do win32 api. so with a little dirty win32lib code
you can get it to work. Its all about learning how to obtain DC's of the
controls and when to paint them. Since EditControls and Labels are global
classes, you will have to make them owner-drawn(In able to get the correct
DC and paint oppurtunity(WM_DRAWITEM). Another way to achieve this(More
Complex but efficient) is super-classing the global controls.)
Also(less efficient) is to trap the WM_CTLCOLOREDIT message. This method is
not 100% efficient because i've tried it on editControls before(text color
change doesn't always work for some colours). Otherwise setting background
colour works well for it.
I'm trying to get this to work in euwin and once i do, u'll get the code.
Till then, research on the above key points and u'll get it working.
Jordah
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Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:30 AM
Subject: Coloured Text in Controls
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> I want to change the text colour of controls in Win32lib such as
> EditText and labels. Have read old discussions which seem to indicate
> this is not possible, or leastways not easy. Is this still the case ?
>
> Cheers
> Rangi
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