winapi - painting rich edit thin border - winapi

Question

By default a rich edit control has a "3d" border. I draw a thin border around a rich edit control this way:
if (message == WM_NCPAINT)
{
RECT rc;
HDC hdc;
HPEN pen;
HBRUSH brush;
HGDIOBJ oldP, oldB;
POINT tl, br;
::GetWindowRect(hWnd, &rc);
hdc = ::GetDC(hWnd);
tl.x = rc.left;
tl.y = rc.top;
br.x = rc.right;
br.y = rc.bottom;
::ScreenToClient(hWnd, &tl);
::ScreenToClient(hWnd, &br);
pen = ::CreatePen(PS_SOLID, 1, RGB(255, 0, 0));
brush = (HBRUSH) ::GetStockObject(HOLLOW_BRUSH);
oldP = ::SelectObject(hdc, pen);
oldB = ::SelectObject(hdc, brush);
::Rectangle(hdc, tl.x, tl.y, br.x, br.y);
::SelectObject(hdc, oldP);
::SelectObject(hdc, oldB);
::DeleteObject(pen);
::ReleaseDC(hWnd, hdc);
return 0;
}
The border looks fine but the area under the old border is not redrawn. It looks like I have to redraw to whole content of the rich edit control. After that a text shouldn't be a litte bit cut from the bottom. Here you can see what I mean (the second rich edit control has custom border). How to achieve it ?

Answer 1

GetDC returns DC for client area. In this case you need GetWindowDC for the whole richedit window.
Either way, overriding border color in edit and rich-edit can be difficult, because you also have to handle scrollbar painting in WM_NCPAINT
Assuming you don't need vertical and/or horizontal scrollbar, use GetWindowDC as follows:
LRESULT CALLBACK RichEditProc(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wp, LPARAM lp,
UINT_PTR, DWORD_PTR)
{
static int border_thickness = 1;
switch(msg)
{
case WM_NCPAINT:
{
HDC hdc = GetWindowDC(hwnd);
RECT rc;
GetClientRect(hwnd, &rc);
rc.right += 2 * border_thickness + 1;
rc.bottom += 2 * border_thickness + 1;
HBRUSH hbrush = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(NULL_BRUSH);
HPEN hpen = CreatePen(PS_SOLID, 2 * border_thickness, RGB(255, 0, 0));
HBRUSH oldbrush = (HBRUSH)SelectObject(hdc, hbrush);
HPEN oldpen = (HPEN)SelectObject(hdc, hpen);
Rectangle(hdc, rc.left, rc.top, rc.right, rc.bottom);
SelectObject(hdc, oldpen);
SelectObject(hdc, oldbrush);
DeleteObject(hpen);
DeleteObject(hbrush);
ReleaseDC(hwnd, hdc);
return 0;
}
case WM_NCCALCSIZE:
if(lp)
{
NCCALCSIZE_PARAMS* sz = (NCCALCSIZE_PARAMS*)lp;
InflateRect(&sz->rgrc[0], -border_thickness, -border_thickness);
return 0;
}
break;
case WM_NCDESTROY:
RemoveWindowSubclass(hwnd, RichEditProc, 0);
break;
}
return DefSubclassProc(hwnd, msg, wp, lp);
}
By default, WM_NCCALCSIZE is not called in subclass procedure, you have to call SetWindowPos with SWP_FRAMECHANGED
HWND hrichedit = CreateWindowEx(...);
SetWindowSubclass(hrichedit, RichEditProc, 0, 0);
SetWindowPos(hrichedit, NULL, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_FRAMECHANGED);
If you do need horizontal/vertical scrollbar, you might consider using a borderless richedit, then paint around the rich control in parent window's WM_PAINT procedure.