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Very nice explanation, thanks.

Is ist possible to reference a subclass in the listbox like:

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Standard.L}" FontSize="10"/> ???

solved it - has to be a property ;)

dirty_harry,

  Sorry for missing your first question.  I've been without net access for a couple days.  Glad to see you answered your own question! :)  Thanks for the feedback.

Todd

Is it possible to control the forecolor of a highlighted record?

Here's what I'm doing:

<ListBox.Resources>

               <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.HighlightBrushKey}" Color="Red"/>

               <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.ControlBrushKey}" Color="Red"/>

</ListBox.Resources>

the SystemColors.HighlightTextBrushKey seems to be readonly.  any ideas how to get around this?

You are correct.  The SystemColors are readonly from the perspective that they relate directly to values that can be set by the user in Windows settings.  We can't set them directly.  However doing what you want to do is very possible.

The way to accomplish what you want is to further expose the templates that make up the listbox items.

Let's say you have a listbox with one listitem:

    <ListBox>

         <ListBoxItem>hello</ListBoxItem>

    </ListBox>

if you look at the template for this, you would see something that looks like this:

ListBox

  Border

     ....

    ItemsPresenter

        ....

        ListBoxItem

            Border

                 ContentPresenter

                      TextBlock

A listitem's highlight color is set at the Border element of the ListBoxItem.  However the font forecolor is set at the TextBlock element.  So in order to change some of these lower level properties, you need to override the control templates at these levels.

Hopefully this summay will give you the direction to solve your problem.

Todd