Re: CTreeCtrl Item labels - are painted with black background instead

From:

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Fri, 1 Feb 2008 06:51:53 -0800

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"sarat" <sarat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:14309A22-4B9D-41BA-999D-AF4AE508D201@microsoft.com...

any help?

in my Tree control OnCustomDraw i have written code like this

void CLeftPaneTreeCtrl::OnCustomDraw(NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult)
{
switch(pNMHDR->code)
{
case NM_CUSTOMDRAW:
{
LPNMTVCUSTOMDRAW lptvcd = (LPNMTVCUSTOMDRAW )pNMHDR;

//lptvcd->clrTextBk = CLR_NONE ;
//lptvcd->clrText = (RGB(0,0,255));

SetTextColor(RGB(255, 0, 0));
SetBkMode(lplvcd->nmcd.hdc,TRANSPARENT);

switch (lplvcd->nmcd.dwDrawStage)
{

case CDDS_PREPAINT:

// Need to process this case and set pResult to
// CDRF_NOTIFYITEMDRAW, otherwise parent will never receive
//CDDS_ITEMPREPAINT notification. (GGH)

*pResult = CDRF_NOTIFYITEMDRAW;
return;

}
}
}
}

in that code
SetTextColor(RGB(255, 0, 0)); works fine

SetBkMode(lplvcd->nmcd.hdc,TRANSPARENT); doesnt work ( it doesnt make
TreeCtrl lables trasparent

CLeftPaneTreeCtrl is Derived class of CTreeCtrl
My I am hosting TreeCtrl on CView derived class MyView

and
if i uncomment both the lined comented in the code

lptvcd->clrTextBk = CLR_NONE ; -> doent work it paints Black background
instead of transparent color

but any other color for eg lptvcd->clrTextBk = RGB(0,0,225) works fine

lptvcd->clrText = (RGB(0,0,255)); -> works fine

now I am not able to make lables trasparent

but one more thing ... the same method works fine in my CListCtrl with
respect to trasparent lables ... ofcouse there r some other probs butfirst
i
wnana sort out the rpob with tree control transparent labels first

am looking for solution please help me out

If it works for CListCtrl but not for CTreeCtrl, I'm not sure. But your
code doesn't look right.

1. The code

        LPNMTVCUSTOMDRAW lptvcd = (LPNMTVCUSTOMDRAW )pNMHDR;

        //lptvcd->clrTextBk = CLR_NONE ;
        //lptvcd->clrText = (RGB(0,0,255));

        SetTextColor(RGB(255, 0, 0));
        SetBkMode(lplvcd->nmcd.hdc,TRANSPARENT);

should be executed only if dwDragStage is CDDS_ITEMPREPAINT (and not no
matter what dwDrawStage is)

2. The *pResult in #1 should be

       *pResult = CDRF_NEWFONT;

-- David

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