All controls on a form to read-only?

[Paul Close]

How does one make all controls on a Windows form read-only? Controls such as
check boxes, combo boxes and date time pickers dont appear to have a
read-only property. Disabling the controls makes them hard to read and you
cant select/copy the contents of text boxes.

Thanks

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Paul Close" <su*****@computerdoctor.com.au> schrieb:

How does one make all controls on a Windows form read-only? Controls such
as check boxes, combo boxes and date time pickers dont appear to have a
read-only property. Disabling the controls makes them hard to read and you
cant select/copy the contents of text boxes.

I doubt that this is possible without using replacements for some of the
controls. You'll find some replacements for common controls which support a
read-only mode. The article
<URL:http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/ReadOnlyComboBox.asp> showcases
a read-only combobox control, for example. In addition to using replacement
controls you can selectively set controls to read-only mode or disable them
based on their type. To do that, recursively enumerate the controls on the
form and check their type using 'TypeOf...Is...'.

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Addendum:

<URL:http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/ReadOnlyComboBox.asp>

<URL:http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CompleteReadOnlyComboBox.asp>

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[Paul Close]

Thanks. Good info.

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
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Addendum:

<URL:http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/ReadOnlyComboBox.asp>

<URL:http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CompleteReadOnlyComboBox.asp>

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