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But what the use if the colour shows up at your side only

Ginge, I did try it

Ginge, are u still using the original CHARFORMAT structure? Try using the extended CHARFORMAT2 structure. U are probably using 2.0 anyway .

CHARFORMAT2 (MSDN)

The CHARFORMAT2 structure contains information about character formatting in a rich edit control. CHARFORMAT2 is a Rich Edit 2.0 extension of the CHARFORMAT structure. Rich Edit 2.0 allows you to use either structure with the EM_GETCHARFORMAT and EM_SETCHARFORMAT messages.

typedef struct _charformat2 {
  UINT        cbSize;
  DWORD       dwMask;
  DWORD       dwEffects;
  LONG        yHeight;
  LONG        yOffset;
  COLORREF    crTextColor;
  BYTE        bCharSet;
  BYTE        bPitchAndFamily;
  WCHAR       szFaceName(LF_FACESIZE);
  WORD        wWeight;
  SHORT       sSpacing;
  COLORREF    crBackColor;    // Background color : -)
  LCID        lcid;
  DWORD       dwReserved;
  SHORT       sStyle;
  WORD        wKerning;
  BYTE        bUnderlineType;
  BYTE        bAnimation;
  BYTE        bRevAuthor;
  BYTE        bReserved1;
} CHARFORMAT2;

Hope this helps!

Greetz

Thanks [white] shark, I'll look into that. Sadly its not quite as easy because I'm doing it through VB, which doesn't let me access it directly, but that may still get it.

I use it 24/7

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I mean the prog

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Heh heh.

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Sadly its not quite as easy because I'm doing it through VB

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Well, I may have a solution, and a very nice one too. But if u are like me u're not a fan of third-party software either. Neway, check it out! Hope this helps.

Greetz

That actually looks very good, but until I get the proper installer technology into BetterMSN I can't distribute additional DLL's without breaking it. Anyway, it seems to be open source, so I should be able to steal what I need from it

I will add all those tools to my web site (links of software itself, you decide). Of course, this is when the web site will be back

I prefer if people link to the download page rather than host it themselves, so I can release new versions without having to tell loads of people. Of course when I finish my autoupdating its not such a big deal, but that is taking quite a while...