Complete Owner draw combo box?

[Gyannea]

It seems like a formiddable challenge to develop an owner draw (non MFC) combo box if you want all aspects of the control under your control. In this case, all I want to control is the COLORS (nothing else). That includes the edit box (or static window if the item inside the combo box can only be selected from a drop down list), the frame about the edit box (or static box), the list control, and the up down control. If you have a drop-down list only type of combo box then it seems you would have to create
(1) An owner draw static box and frame
(2) An owner draw list box and owner draw slider, thumb bar, and updown buttons
(3) An owner draw up down control.

You would have to write all the logic that the list box selection loads the selection into the static box, etc.

However, I don't know how to implement an owner draw up down control and slider bar. Any hints on how this aggregious chore can be done?

Thanks,

Brian

[kirants]

Here is an article. It uses MFC, but you can borrow ideas ..
http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/controls/combobox/specialeffects/article.php/c7609/
I don't know how to implement an owner draw up down control and slider bar
Now, do you mean the list scroll bar ?

The article above , also , does not implement that and lists as a TODO item..