Possible to change the text color of a disabled edit?

[ame1011]

Is this possible? A search yielded no results.

[Swift]

GUICtrlSetBkColor()

GUICtrlSetColor()

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[ame1011]

GUICtrlSetBkColor() works to set the BK color of the control and I've already done that.

What I want is to change the grey font to a pure black in a disabled control, which GUICtrlSetColor() doesn't accomplish.

[Siao]

Does the edit control have to be disabled?

You can use $ES_READONLY style.

Otherwise might as well just use label control instead.

Edited February 6, 2008 by Siao

[ame1011]

Yeah I Need it to be disabled =/. Readonly allows mouse clicks and selects the text inside the box if there is text, something I cannot have. I want my inputbox to have the exact same functionality as a disabled control but with pure black text. Any Ideas?

[Siao]

Problem with disabled edit is that for whatever reason M$ decided to hardcode the color of text to use system COLOR_GRAYTEXT, so it's not possible to set the text color using WM_CTLCOLOREDIT/WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC for disabled, even though it works fine for enabled/readonly, and even though setting background color via these messages works just fine in all cases. Not that surprising I guess, Microsoft have a history of doing things in ways that don't make sense. Point is, this makes what you want rather complicated to do. In any case, it would require subclassing edit control, and either do the painting yourself on a disabled, or use readonly style like I suggested and simply intercept mouse/focus messages to prevent user clicking/selecting...

So, like I said, consider using different control. Label, or if you have lot of information to show and need scrolling, a listbox with $LBS_NOSEL style... although seeing as you want to use disabled edit, which doesn't have scrolling ability, I guess that's not the case. So like I said, why simple label is not enough?

Edited February 7, 2008 by Siao