How to change the color of a property in CMFCPropertyGridCtrl

Question

How can I change color of a property(single property among all other properties) in CMFCPropertyGridCtrl?

Can you please clarify? Do you mean the background colour? What have you tried? — Andrew Truckle, Jun 20 '16 at 08:42
@AndrewTruckle actually I need to change back ground color and as well as text color of the property — Suman Reddy, Jun 21 '16 at 04:25

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '16 at 11:43

You need to derive a class from the CMFCPropertyGridCtrol class, and override the CMFCPropertyGridCtrl::OnDrawProperty method. This allows you to change the device context to your liking prior to calling the default implementation:

class CMFCMyPropertyGridCtrl : public CMFCPropertyGridCtrl {

public:
    virtual int OnDrawProperty( CDC * pDC, CMFCPropertyGridProperty* pProp ) const {
        // Implement check to see, if this is the property we are looking for
        // If it is, set an appropriate text color
        pDC->SetTextColor( RGB( 0xff, 0x0, 0xff ) );

        // Call the default implementation to perform rendering
        return CMFCPropertyGridCtrl::OnDrawProperty( pDC, pProp );
    }
};

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 01 '23 at 09:36

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CMFCPropertyGridCtrl.SetCustomColors(...) will do it.

answered Jul 01 '23 at 09:36

winston

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How to change the color of a property in CMFCPropertyGridCtrl

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