Is there any way, in a text box, to make the Cursor white so it's
invisible?

Thanks - Kirk

Why would you want to do that? A textbox is a control where the user can type
something. You shouls use a lable instead, and make it's background white or
whichever color you like.

greetz

T.Janssens (Pro-Profit)

"kirkm" wrote:

>
> Is there any way, in a text box, to make the Cursor white so it's
> invisible?
>
> Thanks - Kirk
>

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 05:59:13 -0800, Tamar
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Why would you want to do that?

Because the text box is being used to display a carefully formatted
string. The cursor is both unnecessary and distracting.

>A textbox is a control where the user can type
>something. You shouls use a lable instead, and make it's background white or
>whichever color you like.

I'm fairly new to this and may be wrong, but I thought a label
didn't have scroll bars and couldn't grow to fit the text.

Cheers - Kirk

>greetz
>
>T.Janssens (Pro-Profit)
>
>"kirkm" wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there any way, in a text box, to make the Cursor white so it's
>> invisible?
>>
>> Thanks - Kirk
>>

Kirk,
As long as the user does not need to interact with the text, you can
..Enabled=false for the textbox.
You will lose the scroll bars though.
However, Tamar suggestion of a label may work better.
You can set the label's AutoSize=True, .Width to something suitable,
..MultiLine=true.
No scroll bars, but you can't have everything <g>.

NickHK

"kirkm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 05:59:13 -0800, Tamar
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >Why would you want to do that?
>
> Because the text box is being used to display a carefully formatted
> string. The cursor is both unnecessary and distracting.
>
> >A textbox is a control where the user can type
> >something. You shouls use a lable instead, and make it's background white
or
> >whichever color you like.
>
> I'm fairly new to this and may be wrong, but I thought a label
> didn't have scroll bars and couldn't grow to fit the text.
>
> Cheers - Kirk
>
> >greetz
> >
> >T.Janssens (Pro-Profit)
> >
> >"kirkm" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Is there any way, in a text box, to make the Cursor white so it's
> >> invisible?
> >>
> >> Thanks - Kirk
> >>

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:54:41 +0800, "NickHK" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Kirk,
>As long as the user does not need to interact with the text, you can
>.Enabled=false for the textbox.
>You will lose the scroll bars though.
>However, Tamar suggestion of a label may work better.
>You can set the label's AutoSize=True, .Width to something suitable,
>.MultiLine=true.
>No scroll bars, but you can't have everything <g>.

So true - and very frustrating ! But I've got a lot further than
expected.
It's a bugger that outputting to the screen is so inflexible.

I don't suppose adding scroll bars to the form would work with the
textbox (or label). Probably not...

I even tried making an image up to cover the cursor, but you can't
have an image on a textbox either. In the end I positioned the cursor
in the least obtrusive place.

I'll play with .Enabled=false because the scrollbars
are only needed where more than 21 lines are output.

Many thanks - Kirk