thanks for the help ... but with your answers i guess there isn't the concept of a read-only mode for elements
Sure there is - just not for every component. We support this in ListView, TableView, TreeView, and TextArea - what other components do you think might benefit from such a feature?
For this I'm also looking at the read only property of (some) HTML Form elements ... and at least for some basic elements could be useful, like Text Inputs, etc ...
What is the use case for making a TextInput read-only, but not providing a visual cue to the user that it is read-only (i.e. disabling it)?
For a user point of view, disabled means "Not available" , "Not applicable", etc, while read-only it's another thing ... and in this case for example Substance has optional markers to decorate the related fields, making more evident to the user that he/she can't modify the value, but can use it like expand it (think at a Combo box) etc, while maybe some background logic in the application could update its values. What do you (and others) say ?
I think you would need to articulate the use cases for a "read-only but not disabled" state in any components that don't currently support this.
