text box question - newbie

**markman** · Jul 25th, 2002, 03:52 PM

I just havent used vb in a while, so its not me thats a n00b, just me question

Now that that is clarified, I want to make a textbox act like a label (so you cant have a caret or select stuff).

How do I do that simple thing?

**nemaroller** · Jul 25th, 2002, 03:56 PM

text1.enabled=false

**markman** · Jul 25th, 2002, 04:04 PM

doesnt that make it gray?

how do I keep it black?

I also need to make this respond to click events

**markman** · Jul 25th, 2002, 04:58 PM

usually newbie questions are answered quickly

or is this too tough for you????

MWAHAHAHAHAHA

**nemaroller** · Jul 25th, 2002, 05:52 PM

Then skip the .enabled idea....
and set the .Locked = true

nevermind that doesn't work...

Ah for pete's sake, just use a label.....

**Hack** · Jul 25th, 2002, 05:55 PM

Try this

VB Code:

Private Declare Function HideCaret Lib "user32" ( ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long 
 
Private Sub Text1_GotFocus()
HideCaret Me.hwnd
End Sub

**nemaroller** · Jul 25th, 2002, 06:11 PM

That code looked golden Hack, thought to myself, wow, look at that elegance....

doesn't work though... at least on XP ...

**nemaroller** · Jul 25th, 2002, 06:12 PM

Ah, but it does work....

Me.Hwnd

Needs to be Text1.Hwnd

Forgive me master....

**crptcblade** · Jul 25th, 2002, 06:25 PM

Another alternative (can never have too many)...

Put the textbox in a frame, and disable the frame.

**rjlohan** · Jul 26th, 2002, 12:27 AM

Originally posted by crptcblade
Another alternative (can never have too many)...

Put the textbox in a frame, and disable the frame.

VB Code:

vbQuote = """
 
 
MyText = "Hello My Name Is " & vbQuote & "Ryan" & vbQuote

Ooops... wrong question...

**faisalkm** · Jul 26th, 2002, 01:59 AM

come on guys....what the big deal in this...

textbox.enabled=false
textbox.backcolor=vbgray

**rjlohan** · Jul 26th, 2002, 02:17 AM

Originally posted by faisalkm
come on guys....what the big deal in this...

textbox.enabled=false
textbox.backcolor=vbgray

He doesn't want it grey, I'm guessing...

**CoderNewbie** · Jul 26th, 2002, 05:17 AM

Wouldn't this work?

Text1.locked = True

I could be wrong

**CoderNewbie** · Jul 26th, 2002, 05:18 AM

OOPS.. never mind. He said so you cant select stuff

**Slaine** · Jul 26th, 2002, 05:24 AM

perhaps something like:

VB Code:

Private Sub txtBox_GotFocus()
    SomeOtherControl.SetFocus
End Sub

**rjlohan** · Jul 28th, 2002, 02:36 AM

Originally posted by Slaine
perhaps something like:

VB Code:

Private Sub txtBox_GotFocus()
SomeOtherControl.SetFocus
End Sub

That's what I usually do.

**nemaroller** · Jul 28th, 2002, 11:30 AM

Label still the best way to go.....

**numtel** · Jul 28th, 2002, 05:21 PM

Why are you people still answering if it was already answered?

**rjlohan** · Jul 28th, 2002, 05:45 PM

Originally posted by numtel
Why are you people still answering if it was already answered?

Overkill. It's called overkill.

**numtel** · Jul 28th, 2002, 10:05 PM

Originally posted by rjlohan

Overkill. It's called overkill.

and you like this?

**nemaroller** · Jul 28th, 2002, 10:18 PM

I'm still curious as to why a label can't be used?
....

**BuggyProgrammer** · Jul 28th, 2002, 10:31 PM

yah a label saves memory too.

make the borderstyle to 3d and the backcolor to white

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