I want to disable a whole group of controls, but I don't want to change the
UI appearance of these controls. I've placed all of these controls onto a
Group Box and so I can physically restrict access to the entire group en
masse by simply disabling the group box. When I do this, I'd like the
contained controls to remain visually unchanged.

How can this be done?

Thanks very much for your help!

Joseph Geretz

Does the group box have a "read-only" property that you can use? Alot of
DevExpress controls have a read-only property that I use often...

"Joseph Geretz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I want to disable a whole group of controls, but I don't want to change the
>UI appearance of these controls. I've placed all of these controls onto a
>Group Box and so I can physically restrict access to the entire group en
>masse by simply disabling the group box. When I do this, I'd like the
>contained controls to remain visually unchanged.
>
> How can this be done?
>
> Thanks very much for your help!
>
> Joseph Geretz
>

Hi Aaron,

We are using the standard VS GroupBox. Unfortunately, it does not provide
the ReadOnly property.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Joseph Geretz

"Aaron Moore" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Does the group box have a "read-only" property that you can use? Alot of
> DevExpress controls have a read-only property that I use often...
>
> "Joseph Geretz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:u9feB1%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I want to disable a whole group of controls, but I don't want to change
>>the UI appearance of these controls. I've placed all of these controls
>>onto a Group Box and so I can physically restrict access to the entire
>>group en masse by simply disabling the group box. When I do this, I'd like
>>the contained controls to remain visually unchanged.
>>
>> How can this be done?
>>
>> Thanks very much for your help!
>>
>> Joseph Geretz
>>
>

Hi,

textBox1.Enabled=false;

textBox1.BackColor = Color.White;

textBox1.ReadOnly = true;

this should do the job, but hard to implement.

I recommend you to create a base Textbox class which overrides enabled property or has another property and executes the code above. After that inherit all your textboxes from this class.

"Joseph Geretz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:OiODDp$(E-Mail Removed)...
Hi Aaron,

We are using the standard VS GroupBox. Unfortunately, it does not provide
the ReadOnly property.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Joseph Geretz

"Aaron Moore" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%23uJqGQ$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Does the group box have a "read-only" property that you can use? Alot of
> DevExpress controls have a read-only property that I use often...
>
> "Joseph Geretz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:u9feB1%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I want to disable a whole group of controls, but I don't want to change
>>the UI appearance of these controls. I've placed all of these controls
>>onto a Group Box and so I can physically restrict access to the entire
>>group en masse by simply disabling the group box. When I do this, I'd like
>>the contained controls to remain visually unchanged.
>>
>> How can this be done?
>>
>> Thanks very much for your help!
>>
>> Joseph Geretz
>>
>

You can handle the GroupBox_Enter event. Cause it to force focus onto
another control. You can even set a flag to let the event know if it should
allow the group box to get focus or not.

VB.NET

Private Sub GroupBox2_Enter(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles GroupBox2.Enter

If Not IsAllowedFocus Then
'set focus to another control
Button3.Focus()
End If


End Sub

"Joseph Geretz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:u9feB1#(E-Mail Removed)...
> I want to disable a whole group of controls, but I don't want to change
> the UI appearance of these controls. I've placed all of these controls
> onto a Group Box and so I can physically restrict access to the entire
> group en masse by simply disabling the group box. When I do this, I'd like
> the contained controls to remain visually unchanged.
>
> How can this be done?
>
> Thanks very much for your help!
>
> Joseph Geretz
>