Graying out specific items in a ComboBox?

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I want to gray out specific items in the list portion of the ComboBox, is this possible? for instance, if my ComboBox has this as its data:

No Selection
One
Two
Three
Four

How would I be able to gray out "Two" and "Four", yet have the others active. I would even be willing to just change the text's coloring if that is all that can happen.

 

[TGM]

Hi

you could use the OnCtlColor to change the color of the background.
The listbox of the combobox is a special case of this message as the listbox of a combo is a child of the combo.
You should subclass the control and override the function OnCtlCOlor. You checl the last patameter and if it is equal to CTLCOLOR_LISTBOX, you can call function to change the background and the text color.

You can also check for an existing class that change the color of the items at the following page:

http://www.codeguru.com/combobox//combo_color_picker.shtml

HTH
Thierry
EMail: Thierry.Marneffe@swing.be