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Mantra 
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 Topic: Highlight Colour In Combobox And ListboxPosted: 02 November 2009 at 9:43am |
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Is there a way of changing the highlight colour of listboxes and comboboxes?
By changing the Highlight property in System Metrics I can get the menu highlight and the selected text in textboxes to change from the default blue but I can find no way to change the highlight colour from blue in listboxes and comboboxes.
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Oleg
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Posted: 03 November 2009 at 8:11am |
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Hi,
Add Manifest to your application and run as exe. It will change color then.
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Mantra
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Posted: 05 November 2009 at 7:42am |
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After searching the forum for info on 'manifest' I have uncovered another reference for skinning a DBList control where you suggest adding a manifest.
However I can find no information on the manifest and how this is created for specific controls.
If this is in fact a manifest for invoking themed controls in general (either a manifest file or one embedded as a resource ) then I have already tried this and found that the combobox and listbox highlights are still blue.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
I am using VB6 by the way.
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SuperMario
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Posted: 05 November 2009 at 8:45am |
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Just copy a manifest file from any of the VB samples and rename it. Make sure it is in the same directory as the exe.
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Mantra
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Posted: 06 November 2009 at 4:33am |
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This does work on XP but on Vista the highlight colour of listboxes or comboboxes stay blue.
Just to prove the manifest was OK I even loaded my skin (or any other skin) into your SkinControls example.
The highlight never changes colour on Vista.
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