How to Change the Blue Selection Color in Edit Control

vishalgpt

Hi Everybody, I want to change the color of selecting text in an edit control and I ran out of ideas. I am totally confused, please anyone guide. It is a WIN32 C++ Application.

Regards, Vishal

David Crow

That's a Windows setting. You can change it via code, but that may end up irritating the user. In any case, see SetSysColors() and COLOR_HIGHLIGHT.

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vishalgpt

SetSysColors() works, but it had changed the default COLOR_HIGHLIGHT color to BLACK, I had used RGB(0,0,0) This function changes the global highlight color, I want to change highlight color of my edit control only. How to achieve this.

Regards, Vishal

David Crow

vishalgpt wrote:

I want to change highlight color of my edit control only.

How to achieve this.

Custom control.

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"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

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vishalgpt

Hi, I was guessing the same, but i am creating a win32 application, 1) Sould i go with MFC 2) Or Subclass existing edit control in win32 c++ Or some other way if exists:...

Regards, Vishal