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Re: Yet Another Win32Lib UI question

• Posted by Mike777 <anon4321 at ?mai?.com> Jan 10, 2008
• 615 views

Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> 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?
> > 
> 
> This will set the background color to the default:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> setWindowBackColor( YourTextCtrl, getSysColor(COLOR_WINDOW) )
> </eucode>
{{{


Thanks to you and Chris.

And, yes, the docs do have this information.  No, I don't know how I could have
missed it the first time through.  I can blame sleep deprivation!

Mike