I am using the StaticText control to display read-only data to the user. It is a nice compact control and for the UI I created the EditField is just too large.

But what I would like to do is allow the user to select the text within the StaticText control so that they could "Copy" the data into other applications. I find it a big surprise that the StaticText control does not allow you to select text (at least as an option)... since I have seen this behavior in a number of other applications.

So I am looking for alternatives...

Like I said the EditField is too large, and I need to have a transparent background on the control. I am thinking that a custom canvas is what I need to do, but handling selection of only part of the string is no trivial task.

Any other suggestions?  Anyone have a class like this?

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