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Re: Yet Another Win32Lib UI question

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at ag?iculture.gouv.f?> Jan 10, 2008
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Mike777 wrote:
> 
> My UI is coming along nicely, thanks to everybody's help.
> 
> Another simple question: I have a text box that I enable and disable based on
> other controls.  It appears that once it is disabled, when it is re-enabled
> the background color remains the color of when it was disabled (light grey),
> rather than white (which is the background color for all text boxes that are
> enabled from the beginning and never disabled.  This actually happens on both
> text boxes and combo boxes.
> 
> I have tried a number of combinations of commands that I think should do the
> trick I found in Win32Lib, but none of them worked.  My guess was that some
> form of:
> 
> setPenBkMode( TheWindow, OPAQUE)
> setBackColor( TheWindow, Gray )
> 
> would have done it, but it doesn't.
> 
> Is there a command or series of command I can issue right after a control is
> enabled to change its background color to white, so it looks truly enabled?
> 
> 
> Mike

I'll check this later.
But the expected way to change the background of a control is
setWindowBackColor(control,color). setBackColor() affects the text you write
after issuing it, not the background.

CChris