[satyarajasekhar]

Hi,
I am usiing horizontalfieldmanager and customfield and overriding the paint method in both classes. I am displaying rectangle around label to get a table like view structure. The issue is, when the focus is on row ie., on horizontalfieldmanager i require rectangles to be drawn with different colour and text to be drawn with different colour.

How to do this. Please help me.
I had gone through fillRect method suggested, but in that case, i am not getting the text.

[satyarajasekhar]

when we call setColour on graphics object and drawing the rectangle its also changing the text colour also. How to draw text and rectangle with different colours. Please, help me.

[Dougsg38p]

setColor() changed the color for all drawing operations, including text.

You need to set the color for the part that you are drawing, right?

[satyarajasekhar]

Hi,
thanks for your reply. Actually, the thing is, adding the label field is not in my control. I am just creating the insance of the custom label field, and drawing the rectanglel around that custom label field.

Its difficult for me to draw the text using paint because the size of the text will vary. So, only i was drawing the rectangle. When i was setting the color either in the custom horizontal fieldmanager or custom label field using paint method, all the rectangles and text are painted with same color.

Please help me.

[Dougsg38p]

If everything is drawing in the same color, and this is the color that you set in paint(), then it is doing what you told it to do, right?

Most likely, you need to get the current color, set the color you need for the rectangle, draw the rectangle, then reset the color back to what it was before calling super.paint()

Post a code snippet.