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From: Rick Rothstein
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:00

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Good point! I forgot about the need for scrolling.

Rick

Michael Carton <mike_carton@erols.com> wrote in message
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> Rick Rothstein wrote:
> >
> > True -- BUT, the user can put the cursor in the text box and highlight
text.
> > This doesn't make for a professional presentation. The disabled Frame
that I
> > suggested in my previous post doesn't have this problem.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > > Just use a textbox with the Locked property set to true. User can see
and
> > > scroll though text, it won't be grayed out. User can't modify the text
in
> > > any way.
>
> I usually set the background to gray and remove the border of textbox. It
allows
> me display
> significant amount of text without using up lot of screen real-estate and
lets
> the user know
> that it cannot be edited.
>
> As for letting user select and scroll through the text, that is the idea
behind
> non-disabled
> text. (See original poster's question about why he/she doesn't want to use
> labels.) Your idea
> works if the textbox can be sized to show all the text to be displayed.
>
> --
> MikeC
>
> Please reply to the group.

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From: "Rick Rothstein" <fnroth@aosi.com>
Subject: Re: Text
Date: 1999/10/12
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