how to use different font color in StatusBarPanel

[unshaven]

Hi,

I fiddled around and searched in the msdn for all members of that StatusBarPanel thing, but I found no way to use different font colors in different status bar panels in one StatusBar.

(I want to do things like graying the "NUMLOCK", "CAPSLOCK" etc. in my status bar when the corresponding keys are inactive. writing in upper/lower case for this looks... not fine.)

 

[Diesel]

Use the DrawItem event of the StatusBar. Make sure to set the child panel to OwnerDrawn. Check out this link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...emwindowsformsstatusbarclassdrawitemtopic.asp

 

[unshaven]

Use the DrawItem event of the StatusBar. Make sure to set the child panel to OwnerDrawn. Check out this link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...emwindowsformsstatusbarclassdrawitemtopic.asp

ah,
thanks, that helped

 

[unshaven]

another question,

can I fire this event by myself, when I think there should be a change?

(when I want to draw this thing in a diferent color, and not change anything oh the panel's properties... no event gets fired)

I can't find how to arbitrarily fire events...