To answer my own question... It's a limitation. Had a look at stctrls and the paint method for both a TCustomLabel & a TCustomGroupBox. The TCustomLabel drawing is smart and checks for the enabled property. In the TCustomGroupBox the caption always gets drawn the same way. Now for the next question... Why on earth do these controls not behave in the same way WRT drawing their captions? Is there a good reason why things are the way they are? Thanks,
Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Milham > Sent: Wednesday, 23 October 2002 4:31 p.m. > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: [DUG]: Why don't group boxes "dim" when disabled? > > > Hi all, > > I'm using D5 and have just discovered that TGroupBox controls > don't "dim" or gray out when they are disabled. I want the > captions of my group boxes to be dimmed when they're disabled > rather than just staying black. > Is this a bug or a limitation? Any ideas? > I'd rather not use a 3rd party control that does this. A hack > for stdctrls might be OK :). > Thanks, > > Chris > > --- > > Chris Milham > Software Developer > MedTech Software Ltd. > Level M, 48 Market Place, Viaduct Basin, Auckland > Ph. +649 3559666 Extn. 714, Fax +649 3774231 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.medtech.co.nz > > > This email and any attachments are intended only for the > person to whom it is addressed and may contain privileged, > proprietary, or other data protected from disclosure under > applicable law. If you are not the addressee or the person > responsible for delivering this to the addressee you are > hereby notified that reading, copying or distributing this > transmission is prohibited. If you have received this email > in error, please telephone us immediately and remove all > copies of it from your system. Thank you for your co-operation. > > <<Chris Milham.vcf>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
