Simplest way to change listview and treeview colours

I'm trying to find a simple way to change the colour of the text and background in listview and treeview controls in WTL or plain Win32 code. I really don't want to have to implement full owner drawing for these controls, simply change the colours used. I want to make sure that the images are still drawn with proper transparency. Any suggestions?

From stackoverflow Simon Steele

• It's been a while since I've use the win32 API directly, but I believe that if you handle the WM_ERASEBACKGROUND message for your control, you can use FillRect() in your handler to paint the background using whatever color you like.

  From Ferruccio

• Have a look at the following macros:

  ListView_SetBkColor
  ListView_SetTextColor

  TreeView_SetBkColor
  TreeView_SetTextColor

  From ChrisN

• There are also appropriate methods of the CListViewCtrl and CTreeViewCtrl wrapper classes:

  • GetBkColor
  • SetBkColor
  From macbirdie

• You may also want to take a look at WTL's CCustomDraw::OnItemPrePaint (that's if you need to control the drawing of individual items)

  A good article that describes this process is here

  From Alan