Re: Subclassing dynamically created controls
"Sujay Ghosh" <SujayGhosh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F5F27A60-72E6-4AEE-AD98-B40B18415A80@microsoft.com...
I am creating an edit box dynamically beside the tree control.
The tree control is in the tree view
TREE VIEW
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Tree Control
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I have derived the edit box CMyEdit from CEdit .
and in the treeview class I have the following line in ON_TVNEXPAND
m_MyEdit.Create(WS_VISIBLE | WS_BORDER, rect, this, ID_MY_EDIT_BOX);
In the CMyEdit I have overriden WM_CTLCLOR_REFLECT with the following
code .
m_ColorRef has been set to YELLOW in the classes constructor
pDC->SetBkColor( m_ColorRef);
return (HBRUSH) m_ColorRef;
But on execution I get a edit box which has a white background ; whereas I
want a edit box with a yellow background.
Am I missing out on something.
Try calling pDC->SetBkMode(OPAQUE) so that the yellow background of text
characters takes effect. Also, the HBRUSH you return needs to be a real
brush. If you don't have one, return the one returned by
CEdit::OnCtlColor() (the function yours calls).
If you want the entire background to be yellow, and not just for the
characters you actually write, create a CBrush which has the yellow color
and return that. Don't bother calling SetBkColor() or SetBkMode().
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