Re: CEditView OnCtrlColor Not Received

From:
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:16:37 -0500
Message-ID:
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The WM_CTRLCOLOR is usually handled by the parent of a control to change the
color of a control. So in order to catch the WM_CTRLCOLOR message of the
control itself you will have to use message reflection.
Messages that can be used with reflection are preceded by an = in the
property window.
Anyway hope this clears it up for you.

AliR.

"Jeffrey Walton" <noloader@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi Ali,

That was it. I missed it on forst pass - its kind of odd how the
wizard uses '=WM_CTRLCOLOR' message rather than 'WM_CTRLCOLOR' the
message.

Jeff

On Aug 19, 10:20 am, "AliR" <A...@online.nospam> wrote:

Try ON_WM_CTLCOLOR_REFELECT()
and
afx_msg HBRUSH CtlColor(CDC *pDC, UINT nCtlColor);

AliR.

"Jeffrey Walton" <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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Hi All,

I have an SDI project with five views. One view is derived from
CEditView. I'm trying to change the background color on the derived
view, but WM_CTRLCOLOR is not being received by the view.

Any ideas? Thanks,
Jeff

class CMyView : public CEditView
{
afx_msg HBRUSH OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor);
...
}

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyView, CEditView)
ON_WM_CTLCOLOR()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

BOOL CMyView::PreCreateWindow(CREATESTRUCT& cs)
{
if( !CEditView::PreCreateWindow(cs) )
return FALSE;

cs.style |= ES_READONLY | ES_MULTILINE | ES_AUTOVSCROLL;
return TRUE;
}

HBRUSH CMyView::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor)
{
// Calling Base class makes no difference
// HBRUSH hbr = CEditView::OnCtlColor(pDC, pWnd, nCtlColor);

pDC->SetBkColor( RGB(255,255,255) );
pDC->SetTextColor( RGB(0,0,0) );

return (HBRUSH)m_brushWhite.GetSafeHandle();

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