gui design opinions wanted

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i want to display a text box that contains a string, that is
read-only, but the user must be able to hilite the text in order to
copy it to the clipboard.

how would you cue the user graphically that the control is not
updatable, but the text is still selectable (i.e., i can't simply
disable the control because then the text can't be hilited).

thx in advance.
 
ToddT said:
i want to display a text box that contains a string, that is
read-only, but the user must be able to hilite the text in order to
copy it to the clipboard.

how would you cue the user graphically that the control is not
updatable, but the text is still selectable (i.e., i can't simply
disable the control because then the text can't be hilited).

thx in advance.
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Textboxes have a ReadOnly property in addition to their Enabled property.

Greg
 
Would changing the text to grey do the trick? I've done that in the past.

Chris
 
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