In Mozilla Thunderbird mail you can assing items in a list a colour. The "focus selector" usually has the "cursor colour" that is defined by the window theme on your OS. Now, when you select a coloured item in Thunderbird, the focus cursor changes colour accordingly. That is to indicate that this item has a colour. Otherwise the user could only see that this particular item has a colour by moving away the "focus selector".
Now, is this possible in WxWindows, a WxListCtrl? Apart from changing the font-colour (SetForegroundColour) and the item's background (SetbackgroundColour, which is usually white)?