Hi all, Thanks for the replies. In fact, setting the field to read-only and the font colour to red does work. However, it doesn't work if the I don't save all the files before doing a build.
I just tried that again to verify. 1. Set field.enabled to false. 2. save all files and the build. 3. run app. Field is dimmed and disabled. 4. exit app and set field.enabled to true. 5. build app 6. run app. Field is still dimmed and disabled. 7. exit app and save all 8. build app 9. run app. Field is enabled. Same holds true for read-only. User can no longer change it but a save all is required. Didn't know that. John Dammeyer > > > You definately cannot change the text in a TEdit if it's set to > read-only. You can highlight text and copy to clipboard, however. > What's wrong with a Label? I use colored labels. > > Ross. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Dammeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Borland's Delphi Discussion List'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 2:10 PM > Subject: Protecting Tedit Field. > > > Hi all, > > I've got a Tedit field that I want to use to display status > information > (with a coloured font) but I don't want a user to be able to actually > click > on it and change it. I can set enabled to FALSE but then > windows greys > out > the text and makes it hard to read. I set the readonly field > and I can > still click on it and change the text. > > How can I make it so I get coloured text but that it behaves like > enabled is > set to false? > > Thanks. > > John Dammeyer > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
