Re: Change background of CEditView

From:

Ajay Kalra <ajaykalra@yahoo.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:00:42 -0700 (PDT)

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On Jul 31, 6:26 am, "njoycod...@gmail.com" <njoycod...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Hey

Thanks that solved my problem :)

On Jul 31, 12:27 pm, Volker Enderlein <vol...@ifm.tu-chemnitz.de>
wrote:

jklioe wrote:

I have a CEditView with ReadOnly set and I want to change the
background to white color and I do the following

ON_WM_CTLCOLOR_REFLECT()

HBRUSH CEditViewEx::CtlColor(CDC* pDC, UINT nCtlColor)
{
// TODO: Change any attributes of the DC here

// TODO: Return a non-NULL brush if the parent's hand=

ler

should not
be called
        COLORREF color;
        CBrush brush;
        brush.CreateSolidBrush(RGB(255, 255,255));
        pDC->SetBkColor(RGB( 255, 255, 255 ));

        return static_cast<HBRUSH>(brush.GetSafeHandle());

}

The problem that I face here is only the text backgroud turn white
while the rest of the view still remains greyed out

You are returning the local variable brush which is destroyed after the
function returns. So this is absolutely wrong.
Better try to make brush a member variable of CEditViewEx and return it=

Cheers Volker- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Also, you dont need to create brush on each call to OnCtlColor. Create
it outside (constructor) and simply return the brush in this method.

--
Ajay

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(Bernard Lazare, L'Antisemitism;
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