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Hey,
I'm trying to change the colour of an edit control by processing the WM_CTLCOLOREDIT message, but it doesn't seem to work.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong?? This is what I'm doing (win98):

WndFrameProc            PROC hWin, uMsg, wParam, lParam:DWORD

                        mov eax,uMsg

                        cmp eax,WM_CREATE

                        je @@Create

                        cmp eax,WM_CTLCOLOREDIT

                        je @@CtlColorEdit

...

@@Create:               invoke CreateWindowEx, WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,

                               addr szEditClassName,

                               NULL,

                               WS_CHILD or WS_VISIBLE or ES_READONLY,

                               0,0,200,24,

                               hWin,NULL,

                               hInstance,NULL

                        mov EditWnd,eax

ret

@@CtlColorEdit:         invoke SetTextColor,wParam,0FFh

                        invoke GetStockObject,GRAY_BRUSH

                        ret

...

From what I understand, when I process WM_CTLCOLOREDIT, wParam should have the appropriate DC, and I'm supposed to return eax=brush for background. But neither text nor background is changing...

Thanks

--Chorus

Hehe, I found your error.
Textboxes with ES_READONLY get the WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC. See here for an example (of course written by myself):
http://www.asmcommunity.net/board/index.php?topic=1524&highlight=read+only+white

Thanks bAZiK,
My API reference must be old, cause it doesn't say that.. guess I should've bothered to check MSDN :)

Interestingly enough, neither static nor edit messages seem to work properly with a combo box edit control... I guess it's off to MSDN...

Take it easy and thanks for replying


--Chorus