Background text color in RichEditCtrl
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Hello to all, I have my application developed is C++/MFC using Visual Studio 6.0. I am using a RichEdit Control (CRichEditCtrl), and this is a chat window when different users put in their chat messages. and for some cases, i need to highlight the chat messages with the background set to RED, in case of certain special users only. The problem i am facing here is that I am unable to set the background text to RED. Initial code was developed using CHARFORMAT, and now I am using CHARFORMAT2. But with this also, the background text doesnot get set. And very surprising to note was that I was not able to set any additional parameters that are defined in CHARFORMAT2 over CHARFORMAT. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks and regards, Anwar.
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Hello to all, I have my application developed is C++/MFC using Visual Studio 6.0. I am using a RichEdit Control (CRichEditCtrl), and this is a chat window when different users put in their chat messages. and for some cases, i need to highlight the chat messages with the background set to RED, in case of certain special users only. The problem i am facing here is that I am unable to set the background text to RED. Initial code was developed using CHARFORMAT, and now I am using CHARFORMAT2. But with this also, the background text doesnot get set. And very surprising to note was that I was not able to set any additional parameters that are defined in CHARFORMAT2 over CHARFORMAT. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks and regards, Anwar.
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Hello to all, I have my application developed is C++/MFC using Visual Studio 6.0. I am using a RichEdit Control (CRichEditCtrl), and this is a chat window when different users put in their chat messages. and for some cases, i need to highlight the chat messages with the background set to RED, in case of certain special users only. The problem i am facing here is that I am unable to set the background text to RED. Initial code was developed using CHARFORMAT, and now I am using CHARFORMAT2. But with this also, the background text doesnot get set. And very surprising to note was that I was not able to set any additional parameters that are defined in CHARFORMAT2 over CHARFORMAT. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks and regards, Anwar.
Try a couple of things: 1 - use the following message: ::SendMessage( m_hwndText, //Handle to edit control. EM_SETBKGNDCOLOR, 0, clrBackground) ; //e.g., ULONG clrBackground = RGB(255, 0, 0) ; 2 - Also, I seem to remember some time ago having to first put some text into a rich edit before I could change the background. You first have to select the text using CHARRANGE, then use CHARFOMAT2 to format the text. I have a vague recollection of putting a single space character into the rich edit to get it to work, but you may not have to. Scott