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Dear Support,

I have a property grid in an CExtPaintManagerOffice2007_R3_Obsidian based application.
The problem is that the grid remains black on white.
I would like it to conform with the paint manager.
What is the easiest way to do this?

Thanks,
Ron.

We are not completely sure what you mean but it seems you are talking about an inverted color scheme.

Some controls like a check box always inherits its styles from the parent window. That is why an inverted color schema is used for combo boxes when the Black theme is applied.

A list, a tree and a grid are considered as a kind of stand-alone controls and the user usually expects to see black text over a white background when using such a control. That is why the tree views inside the property grid do not inherit the inverted color scheme.

You hit exactly the point.

I would have the grid white on gray as the rest of the application.
For normal grid I did it manually very easily, I used TextColorSet for changing the cells color of my derived cell classes, and used OnSiwPaintBackground to change the grid’s background color or my derived grid.

I would to know how to do the same for a Property Grid.

Thanks,
Ron.

As you know CExtPropertyGridCtrl is a container for one or more tree grid windows. The latter are created in the CExtPropertyGridCtrl::OnPgcCreateGrids() virtual method. By default, two tree grids are created: CExtPropertyGridWndCategorized and CExtPropertyGridWndSorted. So you can override CExtPropertyGridCtrl::OnPgcCreateGrids() and instantiate any custom tree grids instead of the default ones.