Re: Control Color Procs and disabled controls

• Subject: Re: Control Color Procs and disabled controls
• From: Bryan Pietrzak <email@hidden>
• Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:28:09 -0600

(I'm reposting this with a more relevant subject...)

I'm installing this control color proc on a static text control to
change its color. (It's for a score pad and when the player's score
drops below zero, I want it to be red.)

My code to do this is in the original e-mail on this thread, but I've
noticed a problem...

When the control is disabled via DisableControl or deactivated via
DeactivateControl it's no longer drawing in the dimmed appearance.
Clearly I'm not handling this quite right. Should I simply check to see
if the control is disabled or deactivated and set up a dimmed fore color
instead?

If so, I'd like to match what the OS does, how can I make an arbitrary
RGB color "disabled" or "deactivated" in the Control Manager sense?

One suggestion was to use GetGray, but I'm not sure how this could be used
in a theme savvy way when the window has a theme background (the lined
pattern in this case).

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