How can I paint CEdit Control without uncovered area?

Question

I have CDialg and CEdit Control on dialog. So, to paint CEdit control without sub-classing CEdit Class, I used CDialog::OnCtlColor like this.

if( nCtlColor == CTLCOLOR_EDIT )
{
    pDC->SetBkColor(RGB(200, 255, 200));
}

But as you can see, that it omits some margin area of edit control.

How can I paint it whole window Rect of CEdit?

Damn~ This site is so harsh at newbies. :p I Cant even post a picture? — Jay Kim, Nov 01 '14 at 01:24
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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 01 '14 at 08:31

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You also need to return a brush with the correct colour, so create a brush in the dialog constructor

#define EDITCOLOR RGB(200, 255, 200)
m_brEdit.CreateSolidBrush(EDITCOLOR);

and in the OnCtlColor() function,

HBRUSH hbr = CDialog::OnCtlColor(pDC, pWnd, nCtlColor);
if (nCtlColor == CTLCOLOR_EDIT)
{   pDC->SetBkColor(EDITCOLOR);
    hbr = m_brEdit;
}
return hbr;

answered Nov 01 '14 at 08:31

Edward Clements

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That works like a dream. Thanks Edward. I was trying to paint Edit control via FillSolidRect() on dialogs paint function. ::GetDc() to get DC of edit control and paint it. But this is much simple and elegant. Thanks. – Jay Kim Nov 01 '14 at 10:57
If you are happy with the answer, please accept and/or upvote the answer -- see http://stackoverflow.com/help/someone-answers – Edward Clements Nov 02 '14 at 08:13

How can I paint CEdit Control without uncovered area?

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