How to change the background color of an Edit Box

How to change the background color of an Edit Box
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/cppfaq10dec04-23jan05.asp
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.