How can I change the font color on a disabled textbox 1

[aprobe]

I have disabled text boxes which are greyed out and I have no control of the font color.

I can do something like
c.ForeColor = Color.Red;

which works fine with enabled textboxes but is totally ignored on disabled boxes which remain a messy murky grey.

Thanks

 

[Rhys666]

Is this Wondows forms and could you use the ReadOnly property rather than the disabled Property for simplicity sake?


Rhys
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[aprobe]

Great, It does what I want.

I never thought of setting ReadOnly, I've always tended to use Enable/Disable.

I still would be interested to know how to change the ForeColor of disabled items.

 

[Rhys666]

I've seen, (and have done), similar with other controls when I've had a need to extend their functionality. Below is how I implemented what you want, (in a very basic way), with a DateTimePicker control which I'm sure you can improve on and apply to a TextBox if you've an interest too.

#region Using

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

#endregion

namespace SludgeSchedulerControls.Widgets
{
	class ExtendedDateTimePicker : System.Windows.Forms.DateTimePicker
	{
		private System.Drawing.Color _backColorDisabled = System.Drawing.Color.Gainsboro;// System.Drawing.Color.Gainsboro;
		private System.Drawing.Color _foreColorDisabled = System.Drawing.SystemColors.ControlText;

		protected override void OnEnabledChanged( EventArgs e)
		{
			base.OnEnabledChanged( e );
			if (!(this.Enabled))
			{
				this.SetStyle(System.Windows.Forms.ControlStyles.UserPaint, true);
			}
			else
			{
				this.SetStyle(System.Windows.Forms.ControlStyles.UserPaint, false);
			}

			this.Invalidate();
		}

		protected override void OnPaint( System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs e )
		{
			base.OnPaint( e );
			System.Drawing.SolidBrush textBrush;

			//Set user selected backcolor when disabled
			if (this.Enabled)
			{
				textBrush = new System.Drawing.SolidBrush( this.ForeColor );
			}
			else
			{
				System.Drawing.Color backColorDisabled = this._backColorDisabled;
				if (this.Parent.FindForm() != null)
				{
					backColorDisabled = this.Parent.FindForm().BackColor;
				}
				textBrush = new System.Drawing.SolidBrush( this._foreColorDisabled );
				System.Drawing.SolidBrush backBrush = new System.Drawing.SolidBrush( backColorDisabled );
				e.Graphics.FillRectangle( backBrush, ClientRectangle );
			}

			//Paint text
			e.Graphics.DrawString( this.Text, this.Font, textBrush, 1.0F, 1.0F );
		}
	}
}

Hope this helps

Rhys
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[aprobe]

Many thanks for your help on this.

I'll print this off for future use.