[2008] Disabled multi-line text box that's scrollable... possbile?

[chris128]

you could just make a small function that works on a timer ticking (set the tick timer to, say, 10) and then use this

textbox1.clear()
textbox1.text = "put your original text here)

This will reset the text whenever the timer ticks

Hope it helps

Ryy

Thats a really bad way of doing it in my opinion. For one thing having a timer running every 10 ms has got to have some kind of impact on performance and for another thing it is just plain bad design. You would probably also find that the text appears to be constantly flickering if its getting cleared and reset every 10 miliseconds.


The way I would do it would be to just set the forecolor and backcolor manually and leave the ReadOnly property as False, then just use the KeyDown event like this to stop users being able to type into it:

Private Sub TextBox1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyDown
        e.SuppressKeyPress = True
End Sub