[VB.NET] Textbox disabled colors

[ProclaimDragon]

I have this little app with a textbox that changes colors (text color and background color) depending on some parameters. I also have visualstyles enabled in my app like this:

Public Sub Main()
        Application.EnableVisualStyles()
        Application.Run(frmMain)
    End Sub

The problem is the following, I don't the user to be able to edit that field at all, and I can just put readonly = true, however, the user can select the text inside and the cursro carret will be there and I also don't want that. That can be fixed with enabled = false. However, if I put it like that, I can't change the text color... How can I achieve this?

Another thing, with Application.EnableVisualStyles() when the background color of the textbox is changed during runtime, there will be a 1pixel border line with the previous background color and if I move the cursor hover the textbox, that border will now have the correct color, I don't want that to happen too and if somehow I mange to fix the enabled = false and text color on the textbox the hover thing will not work and the border with the previous color will remain there.

Any thoughts on this 2 problems?

[xfx]

Try using the "Locked" property.

Setting it to "True" will "lock" the control so it cannot be modified but the control will appear as "enabled"...

[ProclaimDragon]

the locked property only seem to work in the IDE. hen it's true, I can't move the control, but when running it doesn't seem to take any effect...

[bangbang023 Veteran]

Why not use a label?

[Elagizy]

  bangbang023 said:

Why not use a label?

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Label also have the same problem with me, i used to make animated buttons by using labels and when i disable the label, the label picture became gray scale ...... thanx nazgulled for opening that thread

[bangbang023 Veteran]

One thing to help fix, what I've found to be some issues with "enablevisualstyles" is to use a manifest file, instead.

[ProclaimDragon]

  bangbang023 said:

Why not use a label?

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cause I wanted to have the look of a textbox :(

[bangbang023 Veteran]

  Nazgulled said:

cause I wanted to have the look of a textbox :(

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You should be able to get it to look like a textbox if you change the control color and such.

[ProclaimDragon]

  bangbang023 said:

You should be able to get it to look like a textbox if you change the control color and such.

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nope, it doesn't look the same... it's almost there, but not the same.... I could set FormBorderStyle = Fixed3D but it's not exactly the same and I don't really like it, but I guess I don't have a choice...

[Winston]

Why don't you just slap on a panel or something, draw some stuff on the panel, like a rectangle and draw te text, then you can make it look like whatever you want.

[+virtorio MVC]

You could just set focus to another control when the particular edit box receives focus. It?s messy but it should do what you want.

  private void textBox1_Enter(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
  {
  	button1.Focus();
  }

You can remove the border by sending the text box control the WM_MOUSEMOVE (0x0200) message using SendMessage. I can only provide a C# sample, not sure how to do it in VB.NET

// At the top
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

// Somewhere in class
[DllImport("User32.dll")]
public static extern Int32 SendMessage(int hWnd, int Msg, int wParam, IntPtr lParam); 

// Code to change background
textBox1.BackColor = Color.Blue;
SendMessage((int)textBox1.Handle, 0x0200, 0, IntPtr.Zero);

Edited January 7, 2005 by virtorio

[ProclaimDragon]

nevermind, i'll just use the label with the 3d effect... thank you for all your help though :)