ComboBox Color Change on Enter

[slinky]

Is there a way to have the actual listed items of a ComboBox have a
different background color from the base background color - e.g. all
the textboxes and combos have tan as their background color, but upon
'dropping-down' the Combo-box's items have light-blue as their
background color, then after choosing an item the result reverts back
to the original tan. Is this possible? Thanks!

[OldPro]

On Aug 17, 7:53 am, slinky <[e-mail]:

Is there a way to have the actual listed items of a ComboBox have a
different background color from the base background color - e.g. all
the textboxes and combos have tan as their background color, but upon
'dropping-down' the Combo-box's items have light-blue as their
background color, then after choosing an item the result reverts back
to the original tan. Is this possible? Thanks!

The only way I know to do this requires making your own combo box from
scratch, using labels and a command button embedded with your own
"down arrow" .bmp. It can be done, but it takes a great deal of
programming.

[Ben]

On Aug 17, 5:53 am, slinky <[e-mail]:

Is there a way to have the actual listed items of a ComboBox have a
different background color from the base background color - e.g. all
the textboxes and combos have tan as their background color, but upon
'dropping-down' the Combo-box's items have light-blue as their
background color, then after choosing an item the result reverts back
to the original tan. Is this possible? Thanks!

I think you could probably complete most of what you are after using
the Got Focus and Lost Focus events.

When the combobox gets the focus change the background color, when it
loses it change it back.

You could also tune the display a bit with onenter or afterupdate
events.