Disable the windows default text highlight

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Hi All,

I am looking for a way to disable the highlight color behind the text usually in the form of a blue rectangle that can be seen in the most of text controls.

Is there a way to change or disable this, for the system or even better an individual control programmatically?

Thanks George

Posted 28-Feb-12 23:53pm

grwithey

Updated 1-Mar-12 13:49pm

Shahin Khorshidnia

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grwithey 29-Feb-12 9:32am

Programaticaly being able to change this colour through the windows themes would also do the job. Dont know if there is anything in windows/resources/themes that would help like shellstyle.dll ect =/

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2012-03-01T15:29:00

The best way would be to create a custom control that paints itself, and then you could chose to use either the native control or your custom control, whichever is appropriate. This wouldn't be hard to do, but it would be a bit tedious.

However, one has to wonder why you would want to do this. The reason Windows exists is to give the same general appearance to applications so that once a user has learned how to use one windows app, he knows what to expect from all windows apps.