Selection Colour in wxListCtrl

Muskelkatermann · Post by **Muskelkatermann** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:01 pm

Hi,

i have a wxListCtrl. When an Item is selected the selectioncolor is blue, that's fine, but when the listctrl looses the Focus it gets gray - I don't like gray.

How can I change this?

greetings

benedicte · Post by **benedicte** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:54 pm

isn't this colour platform specific ?

as wxWidgets uses native controls, it may not be possible to change it.

leio · Post by **leio** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:53 pm

wxListCtrl is only native on wxMSW, unfortunately.
For others something returned from wxSystemSettings::GetColour is probably used.

Muskelkatermann · Post by **Muskelkatermann** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:41 pm

May be someone knows how to change the native's colour?
This App is for Windows only.
I guess there is a WinApi Function ?!?!?!?

Greetings

Post by **upCASE** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:31 pm

Hi!
In fact there is (SetSysColors()), but I wouldn't recommend to use it, as it is "bad style" to change the users general UI just because you don't like gray

Muskelkatermann · Post by **Muskelkatermann** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:38 pm

upCase:
i agree although I've already seen Apps that do, Pinnacle Liquid Edition for example changes the whole Windowx Theme

Well, my users will have to life with dark blue and gray...

greetings

leio · Post by **leio** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:08 am

They have to live with whatever they chose to live with.

entell · Post by **entell** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:58 am

Is there any other way to change these colors other than using SetSysColors() which changes the colors for the entire GUI (not just a specific widget)?

entell · Post by **entell** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:21 am

It appears that if I hook into EVT_KILL_FOCUS (first derive a new class from wxListCtrl) and handle it without calling event.Skip(), then the selected item does not change its background color to gray...

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