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Highlight Colour In Combobox And Listbox

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Topic: Highlight Colour In Combobox And Listbox

Posted By: Mantra
Subject: Highlight Colour In Combobox And Listbox
Date Posted: 02 November 2009 at 9:43am

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.

Thank you

Replies:

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 03 November 2009 at 8:11am

Hi,

Add Manifest to your application and run as exe. It will change color then.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: Mantra
Date Posted: 05 November 2009 at 7:42am

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.

Posted By: SuperMario
Date Posted: 05 November 2009 at 8:45am

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.

Posted By: Mantra
Date Posted: 06 November 2009 at 4:33am

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.

Thank you