[comp.windows.ms.programmer] Colors in Edit Control

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?
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