Deactivate change of the background colour if ReadOnly=tru

[Natorion]

Hi,

if I set ReadOnly=true the EditBox gets a grey background. I want to have the background have another colour. Using:

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EditBoxControlInstance.BackColor = &HFF0000

has absolutly no effect. How do I alter the background?

[TiKu]

You would need subclassing to change this color.

How urgent do you need a solution? I'm in the progress of updating some parts of EditControls and could implement a new property called "DisabledBackColor" or something like that. The problem is, that I do not have much time to work on the controls, so 2 weeks could pass before I can release the update.

[Natorion]

Thank you, two weeks are enough for me

What exactly do you mean with subclassing in this context?

[TiKu]

What exactly do you mean with subclassing in this context?

The WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC message that is sent to the control's parent window must be handled.

[Natorion]

I now tried to intercept the which fires when the text is changed so I can nullify the change. Unfortunatly there is no such event :/

[TiKu]

Sounds like you're looking for the TextChanged event.

[Natorion]

Unfortanatly TextChanged fires after the change and with no parameters. I have done a workaraound now, wrapping the whole text changing

[itmg]

Hi,

what I'm doing wrong?
The backcolor of the text should be red also!

[TiKu]

Looks like version 1.4.0 introduced several drawing issues. Please try the attached version.

[itmg]

Thanks!
That was quick!