Hi Rich Don't set enabled to false; rather set readonly to true. If you want wordwrap, you'll probably want scrollbars set to ssVertical. Wayne Roser (D6)
Borland's Delphi Discussion List <[email protected]> on Wednesday, 16 August 2006 at 6:41 a.m. +0000 wrote: >Hi All, > >Using D7 and Indy 9, I have some data fields that are extracted >from web pages, so they can be arbitrarily long. I want to use >TMemos with ssBoth scrollbars so people can see the entire field. >First, I used TLabels to display the fields, but the fields extended >past the limits of my TPanel which holds the TLabels, so I went to >TMemos with scrollbars to get around this problem. > >But I don't want the user to be able to change the text in the TMemo >any more than s/he would with the TLabel. So I set Enabled=False >in the TMemo fields. > >Problem is, when the TMemo has lots of text, the user can't operate >the scrollbars when Enabled=False. So s/he can't see the material >in the TMemo which is off the visual area. > >I would like to present the entire text to a user, letting the user >manage the scrollbar positions, but not let the user change the text. > >Does anyone know how to do this? > >Thanks, >Rich > >_______________________________________________ >Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] >http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
