Re: How to hide caret in Edit Box?

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From: Alan Bellingham
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 11:43

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"JD" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>
>Alan Bellingham <alanb@episys.com> wrote:
>> When I want to do that, I override the WM_CTLCOLOR message handlers.
>
>Interesting. The accepted response from fishface:
>
>    long style = GetWindowLong(Edit1->Handle, GWL_STYLE);
>    style = style | WS_DISABLED;
>    SetWindowLong(Edit1->Handle,GWL_STYLE, style);

There's that, too. It's probably simpler. I just happened to be
overriding a whole bunch of colors (static fields on bitmap backgrounds)
and extended the in-place solution a little further.

Alan Bellingham
-- 
ACCU Conference 2005 - 20-23 April, Randolph Hotel, Oxford, UK

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