You can't have it all

 

I'm not fond of rightclick standard popup menu anyway so... You can add own popup menu and add copy / paste functions yourself but that's your choise.

 

 

 

  

 

It seem to work but with Item.Flags = 0 I lost the possibility to do copy of the property value.

 

You can try this instead:

 

Set propItem = Item.AddChildItem(PropertyItemString, "PropertyItemString", "abc")

       propItem.ReadOnly = True
       propItem.Flags = 0
       propItem.InplaceButtons.Add 1
       propItem.InplaceButtons(1).Enabled = True

       propItem.CaptionMetrics.ForeColor = vbGrayed  'Now it looks the same as ReadOnly = true

 

 

 

 

Hi,

 

Already done but the button is missing and not visible and disabled. When property is readonly the InplaceButtons are not draw.

 

Try this:

 

You can enable/disble inplacebutton directly:

 

Set propItem = Item.AddChildItem(PropertyItemString, "PropertyItemString", "abc")
      propItem.InplaceButtons.Add 1
      

      propItem.InplaceButtons(1).Enabled = False
     

 

Or 

 

With V13.0:

 

wndPropertyGrid.FindItem(ID_PROPGRIDITEM).InplaceButtons.FindButton(ID_INPLACEBUTTON).Enabled = False (or True)  

 

 

 

 

I use the property control for display many properties that are not changeable by users and many property display a directory path like C:\windows; c:\documents\data\; \\serv2\users, etc. I need to put a button for open the path on explorer without do a copy and paste of it, so, I have added a button that open the folder with shell command but the buttons are not show if readonly property i set on true. I can I do it?