I want to be able to set the font color on specific lines within a LISTBOX rather than the whole LISTBOX. How can I do this?

I have seen reference to calling Win GDI to do this but no examples.

How is it done?

Paul,

You can't easily do this in an OI Listbox (you'd have to subclass the control and handle the text drawing yourself - not a small undertaking :)

Other options you have are:

1) Use a single column EditTable with the COLOR_BY_POS message

2) Use an OLE ListBox control that exposes the functionality you need

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Using Send_Message, I can only seem to colour an entire column. I just cannot get an entire row coloured. What am I doing wrong?

I can get an OLE table displayed, but I cannot 'see' how to apply the desired colors.

It is so frustrating that the help docs aren't clearer. I followed the examples in the help but, as I said above, I can colour a column but not a row.

I think I have found the problem with my COLOR_BY_POS Send_Message.

I was trying to colour the row as I was building the LIST, in the same loop. I was not setting the LIST property of the TABLE until I had exited this loop, therefore the rows were not available to colour! Doh!

Now if I build my list in one loop and then set the LIST property, thereby initialising the rows in the table, I can then, in a second loop, set my desired rows to the colour that I want. Hey presto!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

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