CEdit custom painting ?

Hi!

I'd like to use a customized CEdit-control which displays a gray text inside
if the control ist empty, otherwise the
user input (I've seen that in a commercial software but can't remember the
name). I tried to overwrite the OnPaint
but got not the result I wanted. Has anybody done this before?

Ciao,
Alex

Hi,

you have to create a message handler for the message ON_WM_CTLCOLORREFLECT and then you can set the text and back color like this:

HBRUSH CMyEdit::CtlColor(CDC* pDC, UINT nCtlColor)
{
pDC->SetTextColor(textcol);
pDC->SetBkColor(backcol);

return brush; // brush is a CBrush object, created with CreateSolidBrush(backcol)
}

Greetings, Jörg

Sorry, we misunderstood. The problem is not setting the colors (it works great the way you described), but doing custom painting (not only changing some colors) inside the CEdit (here: drawing some static, gayed text when the control ist "empty").

Thank you for your reply and I hope it's now more clearly what I want to do.