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Jan-WIllem
Jan-WIllem

Reputation: 101

How to Color ListBox Items?

I want to change the color of a ListBox items. The code I have doesn't seem to work. It just adds the namespace of the class to the ListBox items.

class myListboxItem
{
    public Color ItemColor { get; set; }
    public string Message { get; set; }

    public myListboxItem(Color c, string m)
    {
        ItemColor = c;
        Message = m;
    }
}

The code to add the item to the ListBox:

listBox1.Items.Add(new myListboxItem(Color.Red,"SKIPPED: " + partThreeOfPath));

This adds a item to the ListBox, in black AddFoldersToClientFolder.myListboxItem.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 332

Answers (1)

Sergey Berezovskiy
Sergey Berezovskiy

Reputation: 236188

You can use DrawItem event of ListBox:

private void listBox1_DrawItem(object sender, DrawItemEventArgs e)
{
    var item = (myListboxItem)listBox1.Items[e.Index];
    e.DrawBackground();

    using (var brush = new SolidBrush(item.ItemColor))
        e.Graphics.DrawString(item.Message, listBox1.Font, brush, e.Bounds);
}

Note: you also need to set DrawMode of ListBox to DrawMode.OwnerDrawFixed or DrawMode.OwnerDrawVariable

Upvotes: 5

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