tabstrip background color

Karger78 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello monks, I am trying to change the color of my tabstrip. I am using the Perl win32::Gui. I have tried everything, along with searching all over the net to see if there is a property for the tab strip. If someone knows, this would be of great help!! I have tried -background as every other control seems to use this, along with -color still no go. I am starting to loose my hair!

$main->AddTabStrip ( -name => "tab",
                     -left => 0,
                     -top => 170,
                     -width => 555,
                     -height=> 500,
                     );

$main->tab->InsertItem( -name=> "Local",
                        -text => "Local",
                        -index=> 0,
                        );
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Re: tabstrip background color by ww (Archbishop) on Oct 13, 2009 at 21:47 UTC
http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/docs.cgi?doc=userguide-concepts, subhead "COLOR" See also http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Change_Listview_Item_Color. Also of possible interest: Textfield does not support EM_SETBKGNDCOLOR. have you tried this: `# change to red $Textfield->Change( -background => [ 255, 0, 0 ] ); # repaint the control $Textfield->InvalidateRect(1);` [download] (found at http://www.mail-archive.com/perl-win32-gui@httptech.com/msg01720.html) The search box on the Win32:GUI site at SourceForge turned up numerous other references to; questions about; and answers. You may profit by directing your research (pun intended) there. Uupdated with additional references	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: tabstrip background color by Karger78 (Beadle) on Oct 14, 2009 at 12:52 UTC
thanks. I will give your suggestions a try. I just find it odd, that changing the color was never considered for tab strips.	[reply]