Preventing focus on editbox? 1

[mikeol]

Is there any way to prevent an editbox from ever getting focus so that the user can never write to it?
I only want to use the box strictly to display text so the user can't be alowed write to it.

I did it before by keeping it disabled, and only enabling it when the program writes to it. But that turned the box grey, and changing the colour back to white seemed to crash it if I was writing to the box very quickly.

 

[tootired]

You can do this by intercepting EN_SETFOCUS and calling SetFocus() for another control ...

void MyDialog::OnSetfocusNoEntryItem()
{
GetDlgItem( IDC_ANOTHERITEM )->SetFocus();
}

An alternative would have been to use a text label rather than an edit box, though changing the value in the label needs slightly different techniques.

Best wishes,

tootired

 

[apatterno]

Use ES_READONLY instead of WS_DISABLED
and make it a Rich Edit Control instead of an edit control

(it will behave the same as an edit control, except the background will be white when it is read-only.)