Change the font color of status bar message on "Find" dialog

Budi Kusasi

I can hardly figure out how to change the status bar message/font color of find dialog window.
All I found was just

void FindReplaceDlg::setStatusbarMessage(const generic_string & msg, FindStatus staus) {
//…
if (isVisible()) {
_statusbarFindStatus = staus;
_statusBar.setOwnerDrawText(msg.c_str());
}
//…
and invocation leads to:

bool StatusBar::setOwnerDrawText(const TCHAR* str)
{
if (str != nullptr)
_lastSetText = str;
else
_lastSetText.clear();

return (::SendMessage(_hSelf, SB_SETTEXT, SBT_OWNERDRAW, reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(_lastSetText.c_str())) == TRUE);

}

and honestly I barely have knowledge in SendMessage() usages, even if this gives good information:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winmsg/about-messages-and-message-queues

How is actually to change the Find dialog status bar message color?
Any helpful guidance is gratified. Thanks in advance

Alan Kilborn

@Budi-Kusasi

So the possible existing colors are red, green and blue.

Searching the Notepad++ codebase for blue quickly yields a hit in FindReplaceDlg.cpp:

void FindReplaceDlg::drawItem(LPDRAWITEMSTRUCT lpDrawItemStruct)
{
	//printStr(TEXT("OK"));
	COLORREF fgColor = RGB(0, 0, 0); // black by default
	PCTSTR ptStr =(PCTSTR)lpDrawItemStruct->itemData;

	if (_statusbarFindStatus == FSNotFound)
	{
		fgColor = RGB(0xFF, 00, 00); // red
	}
	else if (_statusbarFindStatus == FSMessage)
	{
		fgColor = RGB(0, 0, 0xFF); // blue
	}
	else if (_statusbarFindStatus == FSTopReached || _statusbarFindStatus == FSEndReached)
	{
		fgColor = RGB(0, 166, 0); // green
	}
	else if (_statusbarFindStatus == FSNoMessage)
	{
		ptStr = TEXT("");
	}
	
	SetTextColor(lpDrawItemStruct->hDC, fgColor);
	COLORREF bgColor = getCtrlBgColor(_statusBar.getHSelf());
	::SetBkColor(lpDrawItemStruct->hDC, bgColor);
	RECT rect;
	_statusBar.getClientRect(rect);
	::DrawText(lpDrawItemStruct->hDC, ptStr, lstrlen(ptStr), &rect, DT_SINGLELINE | DT_VCENTER | DT_LEFT);
}

Not sure, but is that what you’re asking about?

Budi Kusasi

THANKS BILLIONS !
How had I to be dumb