Please Help

[Mih_Flyer]

Hello,,,
I'm designing a small program, and i have some Labels in it, and i need to edit these labels so when i click on thim a cursor appears and i can move it normally like a textbox and change the label's text and when i click enter the cursor disappears and the label is changed to the new one,,,can some one help me
I hope you could understand my english

thanx

[Edited by Mih_Flyer on 06-01-2000 at 12:26 AM]

[JasonGS]

You can't actually edit the Label control that I am aware of, you kind of want a hybrid Label/TextBox... im not sure how much this will help you, but you could try this...

Private Sub Label1_DblClick()
    Label1.Caption = InputBox("Enter the new value for Label1...", "English is Cool", Label1.Caption)
End Sub

[Chris]

First you need to create a project file with the following control

lblTest (Label)
txtEdit (Text Box)

and the code will look like below:

Option Explicit
Private Sub lblTest_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
'only apply to mouse's left button
If Button = vbLeftButton Then
    txtEdit.Top = lblTest.Top
    txtEdit.Left = lblTest.Left
    txtEdit.Height = lblTest.Height
    txtEdit.Width = lblTest.Width
    txtEdit.Text = lblTest.Caption
    txtEdit.Visible = True
    If lblTest.Caption <> "" Then
        txtEdit.SelStart = Len(lblTest.Caption)
        txtEdit.SetFocus
    End If
End If
End Sub

Private Sub txtEdit_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
If KeyAscii = 13 Then
    lblTest.Caption = txtEdit.Text
    txtEdit.Visible = False
End If
End Sub

Private Sub txtEdit_LostFocus()
txtEdit.Visible = False
End Sub

[Judd]

Set the following properties:

Appearance 0 - Flat
Border Style 0 - None

Change the background colour to the form colour and
voila....you have a text box that looks like a lable and can be edited.




Dan

[Edited by Judd on 06-01-2000 at 05:19 AM]

[Chris]

With Textbox alone, the textbox can be highlight by the user at anytime just with the mouse point to the textbox control content. Am I correct? So it may look a bit weird.

Not if you set the Enabled property to False. If it is set to false, then you will not be able to highlight it, in which case, it will act as a label.

[Chris]

yup, Megatro you're rite. But with the Enabled properties set to False, then all the text within the TextBox control will be in gray color rite?

Yes, it will be in gray, but i'm sure you can change that with API.

[Chris]

yup, I think SendMessage API can do this.

[Kazim Zaidi]

Don't Make a Label. Make textbox and set the following properties:

Appeareance = Flat
BorderStyle = None
BackColor = The backcolor of form
These properties would make your textbox look like label and users would be able to edit it also.