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Re: Help: Cannot set colors in MLE controls

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From: Michael Harris
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:00
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grega@netcom.com (Greg Altman) writes:

>I am trying to set colors in MLE controls using presentation parameters, i.e.
>FOREGROUNDCOLOR and BACKGROUNDCOLOR. I am using longs to pass in RGB values.
>This works just fine in all the other controls, by MLE set their colors to
>the 16 provided by the system.

>Is something wrong? Should I use some other methods for setting MLE colors?

I don't know... but there are MLM_ messages to do this.  I don't have the docs
in front of me but I think they are MLM_SETBACKCOLOR MLM_SETFORCOLOR (or
something close to that).  The messages use the CLR_ system values.
______________________________________________________________________________
     Michael Harris - harris@catt.ncsu.edu or harris@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com
 System Administrator, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State Univ.
(My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)
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