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copied!<p>By default the text in a ComboBox is drawn in one of two colors:</p> <pre><code>SystemColors.WindowText </code></pre> <p>for non-highlighted items, or</p> <pre><code>SystemColors.HighlightText </code></pre> <p>for highlighted items.</p> <p>These colors are not fixed, but can be configured by the user (e.g., through Control Panel). In a typical Windows color scheme, WindowText is black, and HighlightText is white, but this is not always the case if the color scheme has been reconfigured.</p> <p>To ensure that you get the right colors regardless of how the user has their system configured, and also to get the appropriate color for highlighted vs. non-highlighted text, instead of using Brushes.Black for your non-disabled text, use something like:</p> <pre><code>e.State == DrawItemState.Selected ? SystemBrushes.HighlightText : SystemBrushes.WindowText </code></pre> <p>This basically says, if the state of the item you're drawing (e.State) is Selected (highlighted), use SystemColors.HighlightText, otherwise use SystemColors.WindowText.</p> <p>You may also want to use:</p> <pre><code>SystemBrushes.GrayText </code></pre> <p>instead of Brushes.Gray, again in case the user has a nonstandard color scheme and plain Gray doesn't look right. And, you probably should also use:</p> <pre><code>comboBox1.Font </code></pre> <p>instead of creating an Arial font, to make sure that the font matches the font defined for the ComboBox on the form. (Also creating a Font object and not disposing of it will cause a resource leak.)</p>

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