Well what I have is an application with built in Emailing capabilities for
notifying users. I have given users the ability to view previously sent
Emails, similar to Outlooks Sent Items. If they double-click on an email, I
have it open in the same form that is used to create and send mail, with all
the functionality disabled (for sending items, selecting recipients, etc).
Outlook does something very similar if you open any email in your Sent
Items - even though you can see the text body (not greyed out) you cannot
edit. I want a similar look/feel. Greying out text boxes with a large
amount of text is difficult to read and doesn't look good. I assumed this
would be a common property (like enabled). I believe I used to do it in
Access using the locked property?
Ryan
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"Ryan" <Tyveil@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
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>Is there any way to disable controls without causing them to be greyed
>out? Such as text boxes, list boxes, etc.
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There may be, by overriding stuff or using the API calls etc, but
generally it's a bad idea as if the user sees something that should work
but doesn't, they tend to think it's broken...
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