Changing background color of CComboBoxEx

..having a bit of a problem with this one..

-I've overridden the OnCtlColor method of CComboBoxEx, and changed the color of the background:

...
COLORREF ActiveBkColor =(COLORREF)0xdae4e9;
static CBrush ActiveBrush(ActiveBkColor);
HBRUSH Brush;
Brush = ActiveBrush;
pDC->SetBkColor(ActiveBkColor);
return Brush;

-Looks totally OK as long as I don't look at the popped-up list, where the background of the text (only) is still white!
-Where there is no TEXT, the background color is ok..

Does anybody have an idea as to what I can do?

Regards
/Torbjörn Josefsson

From MSDN documentation on CWnd::OnCtlColor:

OnCtlColor will not be called for the list box of a drop-down combo box because the drop-down list box is actually a child of the combo box and not a child of the window. To change the color of the drop-down list box, create a CComboBox with an override of OnCtlColor that checks for CTLCOLOR_LISTBOX in the nCtlColor parameter. In this handler, the SetBkColor member function must be used to set the background color for the text.

It does not work for me. Does anybody have a solution?

Just before you set your Color in OnCtlColor, place the line:
pDC->SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT)

Hope this helps

Owen:)

Hi,

would u be so kind and post your complete entry in the OnCtlColor?
I´ve the same problem and wonder how it works.

THX!!!!