kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) (04/25/91)
I'm trying to create an edit control with red text on a pale yellow background. In my window proc I have: case WM_CTLCOLOR: if (HIWORD (lParam) == CTLCOLOR_EDIT) { SetBkColor (wParam, 0x7fffff); SetTextColor (wParam, (COLORREF) 0x0ff); UnrealizeObject (PaleYellowBrush); /* BS_SOLID, 0x7fffff, 0 */ return PaleYellowBrush; } break; This gives me a background with color 0x00ffff (bright yellow). In fact, it appears that text can only the 8 primary colors as background (IBM PS/2 motherboard VGA). So, in an attempt to be clever, I changed the code to: case WM_CTLCOLOR: if (HIWORD (lParam) == CTLCOLOR_EDIT) { SetBkColor (wParam, 0x7fffff); SetTextColor (wParam, (COLORREF) 0x0ff); SetBkMode (wParam, TRANSPARENT); UnrealizeObject (PaleYellowBrush); /* BS_SOLID, 0x7fffff, 0 */ return PaleYellowBrush; } This gives my text a pale yellow background. However, character positions in the edit AFTER any entered text are WHITE. i.e. If I fill the edit with text, it all has pale yellow background, but if I move the cursor to the beginning of the field and press DEL a few times, WHITE spaces start coming in from the end of the edit. What is the simplest way to get an edit control with a pale yellow background? -- Kevin Kleinfelter @ Dun and Bradstreet Software, Inc (404) 239-2347 ...gatech!nanovx!msa3b!kevin Warning: There seem to be multiple 'msa3b' nodes on Usenet, and it is nanoVX, not nanovAx.