Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!hyper.hyper.com!bonneau
From: bonneau@hyper.hyper.com (Paul Bonneau)
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Changing color of Edit Control text
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.195218.22241@hyper.hyper.com>
Reply-To: bonneau@hyper.UUCP (Paul Bonneau,,)
Organization: HyperCube Inc.
References: <25920006@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1991 19:52:18 GMT

In article <25920006@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM> ssl@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM (SSL Guest User) writes:
>
>How does one change the color of text entered and displayed
>in a dialog box edit control?
>
>I've tried the following (which failed as predicted by the SDK manuals)
>
>hDC = GetDC(GetDlgItem(hDlg, controlid));
>SetTextColor(hDC, RGB(blah, blah, blah));
>ReleaseDC(hDC, blah blah);
>
The problem is that each time the edit control gets a DC, it
is re-initialized to the default setting.  If the control
were registered with one of the other DC attributes your fix
would work (the text color would not be nuked--see the
discussion of DC attributes in Reference--Volume 2--wndclass).

However, you can use the WM_CTLCOLOR message.  This is sent
just before the control paints itself.  Just call
SetTextColor() as above except use the DC supplied with the
message.

cheers - Paul Bonneau.