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How to change the background color of an Edit Box?

April 26, 2017background Box color edit

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How to change the background color of an Edit Box?

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You can change the background color of an edit control in a dialog by handling the WM_CTLCOLOR message in the dialog: class MyDialog : public CDialog { //… COLORREF _BkgColor; HBRUSH _BkgBrush; }; BOOL MyDialog::OnInitDialog() { //… _BkgColor = RGB(0,255,0); _BkgBrush = ::CreateSolidBrush(_BkgColor); } HBRUSH MyDialog::OnCtlColor( CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor ) { hbr = CDialog::OnCtlColor(pDC,pWnd,nCtlColor); if (pWnd()->GetDlgCtrlId() == IDC_MY_EDIT_CONTROL) { pDC->SetBkColor(_BkgColor); hbr = _BkgBrush; } return hbr; } In the OnInitDialog() handler for the dialog, we initialize the background color value and create a brush in that color. The WM_CTLCOLOR handler is called OnCtlColor. The edit control for which we want to change the color has the resource ID IDC_MY_EDIT_CONTROL. We set the text background to our background color using SetBkColor(), and the overall background for the control by returning the brush we created.