RE: Coloured Text in Controls
Whoa Jordah - that's all pretty much gobblygook to me. By the time I
figured it out I'd be an old man so guess I'll just stick to black text
on coloured backgrounds.
Thanks anyway
Rangi
jordah at btopenworld.com wrote:
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <totorangi at hotmail.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:30 AM
> Subject: 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
> >
> >
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