[2005E] Possible solution to the SkinCrafter Bug?

Hi,

When I downloaded VB 2005 Express I took advantage of the bundle of goodies on offer and downloaded SkinCrafter Light.

I really like the four skins that come with SkinCrafter Light, and I am using one on my current project (example of the skin I am using here).

However, SkinCrafter Light has a couple of bugs with RichTextBoxes (these bugs are known to SkinCrafter, as I can see posts about them in their forum, but they have gone unanswered in over two years!)

One bug is that any text that is colored in a RichTextBox is turned back to black when the skin is applied, and if you click anywhere in the RTB the application will crash (you can see my RTB on the right bottom of the form in my screenshot above).

I use colored text in my RTB, but, at a pinch, I could make do without (as I really DO like the Skin), but the problem remains of crashing when clicking inside a RTB.

I was wondering (can't test at the moment as I am at work) if simply placing a control, such as a Button, Label, Picture box etc, set to transparent, over the top of the RTB, would solve the problem, so a user could not click inside the RTB (but would be clicking on the invisible control over the top instead).

Rock

I guess the question would be: why do they need to click inside the richtextbox?

Have you tried setting the Locked property to True?