> I am trying to use MFC's message reflection to handle control coloring
> in my CEdit-derived class.  However, my CtlColor member function is
> never called.  There are two catches to the way I'm doing this that
> might be responsible.  First, the parent window is derived from
> CScrollView, not CDialog, though the documentation states that any
> window derived from CWnd is fine.  Second, the CEdit-derived object is
> implemented and created within a User DLL (the view window lives
> within the application itself).  That means it has it's own window
> mapping pool, which is probably the problem.

> This is just ridiculous.  I want my control to be able to control, no
> pun intended, it's own coloring.  I do not want the view window to
> even know this window exists!  Apparently there is no way to do this
> with the CEdit class.  Microsoft really screwed up with both the whole
> WM_CTLCOLOR implementation and with MFC's CEdit implementation.  There
> should be a simple way to tell the control to set the text and
> background colors.

> I guess I'll be rolling my own edit control unless someone here has
> some arcane knowledge for me.

> Brent