esche:

locked porperty on .net just lock the control to the form, making you not enable to move it...

the locked from vb6 was change to readonly...

HTH

Gonzalo

Sorry to bring this thread back up and it came out from my google search to set textbox as readonly but no grey out the textbox.

I found a simple solution:
1) Set the textbox readonly property to false
2) on event keypress, I'll handle this event
This will not allow user to enter or delete anything in the textbox and you can set whatever color you like, as well as allowing user to select text and set focus to the textbox.

Probably old news but for the googlers...
setting Enabled=No, Locked=Yes, Tab Stop=No might be another option.

Why wouldnt you just use a label

Nick Cammarata

You might want to try something like this:

I have created myTextBox with an override for the paint. If the control is disabled - its one color and enabled - another. You can check on the box to see if it is disabled by the mouseover override. The project consists of 2 controls tbHowdy and btnEnable. In the Form1.Designer I replaced the default Initialize component with:

this.tbHowdy = new disable_textbox.Form1.myTextBox();

Hope this helps

namespace disable_textbox
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void btnEnable_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (tbHowdy.Enabled)
            {
                tbHowdy.Enabled = false;
                btnEnable.Text = "Enable";
            }
            else
            {
                tbHowdy.Enabled = true;
                btnEnable.Text = "Disable";
            }
        }
        public class myTextBox : TextBox
        {
            public myTextBox()
            {
                SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint, true);
            }

            // override on paint
            protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
            {
                if (this.Enabled)
                {
                    SolidBrush drawBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Red); //Use the ForeColor property
                    // Draw string to screen.
                    e.Graphics.DrawString(Text, Font, drawBrush, 0f, 0f); //Use the Font property
                }
                else
                {
                    SolidBrush drawBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Blue); //Use the ForeColor property
                    // Draw string to screen.
                    e.Graphics.DrawString(Text, Font, drawBrush, 0f, 0f); //Use the Font property
                }
            }
            protected override void OnMouseHover(EventArgs e)
            {
                base.OnMouseHover(e);
                base.Text = "blah";
            }
        }
    }
}

Sorry - I see this is a VB forum - but I am sure that it is similar in VB

When I refresh the control, it goes to enabled again and when highlighted the font changes, disappears, etc... how do I return the entire textbox as normal again.

My reasoning would be I want the text to be allowed to be copied to the clipboard. Eating all keypress events, doesn't give me that either.

But allowing Ctrl-C through gives me what I want.


        If Not (Control.ModifierKeys = Keys.Control AndAlso e.KeyChar = "c"c) Then
            e.Handled = True
        End If

Sorry, that code didn't actually work, but this seems to do the trick.

        ' don't handle Ctrl-C
        If Not (e.KeyChar = Chr(3)) Then
            e.Handled = True
        End If

though I'm too struggling with this, there is some thing that is possible

http://codeforfuture.com/2008/12/24/...r-radiobutton/