Re: CEditView OnCtrlColor Not Received

From:
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:20:23 -0500
Message-ID:
<#YHhvhNIKHA.3000@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
Try ON_WM_CTLCOLOR_REFELECT()
and
afx_msg HBRUSH CtlColor(CDC *pDC, UINT nCtlColor);

AliR.

"Jeffrey Walton" <noloader@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:86d4b30e-4861-4cd5-b097-30cea7ccd74a@24g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...

Hi All,

I have an SDI project with five views. One view is derived from
CEditView. I'm trying to change the background color on the derived
view, but WM_CTRLCOLOR is not being received by the view.

Any ideas? Thanks,
Jeff

class CMyView : public CEditView
{
   afx_msg HBRUSH OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor);
   ...
}

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyView, CEditView)
   ON_WM_CTLCOLOR()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

BOOL CMyView::PreCreateWindow(CREATESTRUCT& cs)
{
   if( !CEditView::PreCreateWindow(cs) )
       return FALSE;

   cs.style |= ES_READONLY | ES_MULTILINE | ES_AUTOVSCROLL;
   return TRUE;
}

HBRUSH CMyView::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor)
{
   // Calling Base class makes no difference
   // HBRUSH hbr = CEditView::OnCtlColor(pDC, pWnd, nCtlColor);

   pDC->SetBkColor( RGB(255,255,255) );
   pDC->SetTextColor( RGB(0,0,0) );

   return (HBRUSH)m_brushWhite.GetSafeHandle();

}

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