Windows 7 SWT Table of selected row highlight color

Question

Is there a way to set the background color of the selected row of the SWT table (FULL_SELECTION style) in a Windows 7 Aero theme? This appears to be a derived, lighter color from the background color of the table. But other than that, I don't seem to have much control over which color to use.

This is a problem for us, because some texts of our tabular elements (foreground) are gray white, so it is very difficult to read them if the line is selected against a light background. I already set the background color of the table to black, but the text is still pretty hard to see.

Are there any suggestions for color management?

Thanks! Ray

Answer 1

According to the Win32 SWT source file, exactly line 1611

if ((style & SWT.FULL_SELECTION) != 0) bits1 |= OS.LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT; 

graphic style SWT.FULL_SELECTION obtained directly from the OS (for LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT see Advanced lookup list styles on MSDN ).

So it’s impossible to change the style.