[CLASS] CtlColors - color your controls (2017-10-30)

[just me]

Is this a bug or does I missed something in my code? Even with ReDraw the control lose the color after RightClick the ListView to open a Menu.
It is just the focused Edit Control who lose the color.
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Hi, you might want to try

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GuiContextMenu:
	if !(InStr(A_GuiControl, "LV01"))
		return
	Sleep, -1 ; process the message queue
	Menu, EditMenu, Show, % A_GuiX, % A_GuiY
	Gui, %A_Gui%:+LastFound
	WinSet, ReDraw
return

[jNizM]

Works. Sleep, -1 infront of the menu was the magic trick. Thanky you.

[just me]

Is it possible to color DateTime Controls (just the Edit Control in DateTime) too?

As a result of my testing it seems that a 'real' edit control will be created and destroyed 'on demand' (like already said in the linked articles). Because each edit has its own unique HWND, it's not possible to register the control. Moreover, the controls don't seem to send WM_CTLCOLOREDIT messages to the AHK Gui.

[fabricio234]

@just me did you figured out why sometimes things using ctlcolors get entire white for a sec then restored?

[just me]

@fabricio234: I didn't have that issue as yet.

[JnLlnd]

I'm using this control to set the background and foreground color of an Edit control.

CtlColors.Change(g_strEditorControlHwnd, strEditBackgroundColor, strEditTextColor)

It works well except when the content of the control is completely deleted (Ctrl+A, Del). Just after the content deletion, the background turns white until the window is refreshed in some way, for example by switching to another app and switching back to my app (Alt+Tab and Alt+Tab again). Is this a known issue?

[Spitzi]

Hi @just me.

Did you ever update the code to AHK2?

Greets Spitzi

[just me]

Hi @Spitzi, no. In v2 you can use the options
C: Color of text (has no effect on buttons and status bars).
and/or
BackgroundColor: Changes the background color of the control.
options for many controls.