All controls on a form to read-only?

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  • Paul Close
    #1

    All controls on a form to read-only?

    How does one make all controls on a Windows form read-only? Controls such as
    check boxes, combo boxes and date time pickers dont appear to have a
    read-only property. Disabling the controls makes them hard to read and you
    cant select/copy the contents of text boxes.

    Thanks


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    • Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
      #2
      Re: All controls on a form to read-only?

      "Paul Close" <support@comput erdoctor.com.au > schrieb:[color=blue]
      > How does one make all controls on a Windows form read-only? Controls such
      > as check boxes, combo boxes and date time pickers dont appear to have a
      > read-only property. Disabling the controls makes them hard to read and you
      > cant select/copy the contents of text boxes.[/color]

      I doubt that this is possible without using replacements for some of the
      controls. You'll find some replacements for common controls which support a
      read-only mode. The article
      <URL:http://www.codeproject .com/cs/miscctrl/ReadOnlyComboBo x.asp> showcases
      a read-only combobox control, for example. In addition to using replacement
      controls you can selectively set controls to read-only mode or disable them
      based on their type. To do that, recursively enumerate the controls on the
      form and check their type using 'TypeOf...Is... '.

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      M S Herfried K. Wagner
      M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
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        • Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
          #3
          Re: All controls on a form to read-only?

          Addendum:
          [color=blue]
          > <URL:http://www.codeproject .com/cs/miscctrl/ReadOnlyComboBo x.asp>[/color]

          <URL:http://www.codeproject .com/useritems/CompleteReadOnl yComboBox.asp>

          --
          M S Herfried K. Wagner
          M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
          V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

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            • Paul Close
              #4
              Re: All controls on a form to read-only?

              Thanks. Good info.

              "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
              news:%23qmRi$8u FHA.3452@TK2MSF TNGP14.phx.gbl. ..[color=blue]
              > Addendum:
              >[color=green]
              >> <URL:http://www.codeproject .com/cs/miscctrl/ReadOnlyComboBo x.asp>[/color]
              >
              > <URL:http://www.codeproject .com/useritems/CompleteReadOnl yComboBox.asp>
              >
              > --
              > M S Herfried K. Wagner
              > M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
              > V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>[/color]


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