Codejock Developer Community : No Grayed Text for Read Only Items http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:06:33 +0000 Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:24:33 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=471 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[No Grayed Text for Read Only Items : Thanks. I was told by Oleg that...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=3565&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#3565 Author: Boyd
Subject: 471
Posted: 19 October 2004 at 1:24pm

Thanks.  I was told by Oleg that this will be in the next release after 9.51.]]> Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:24:33 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=3565&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#3565 <![CDATA[No Grayed Text for Read Only Items : I thought you all might want to...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=3563&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#3563 Author: SuperMario
Subject: 471
Posted: 19 October 2004 at 1:04pm

I thought you all might want to know that a new property,PropertyGrid::ViewReadOnlyForeColor, has been added (I'm not sure ifthis is in 9.51).  This allows you to set the color of the textfor ReadOnly items. ]]> Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:04:32 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=3563&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#3563 <![CDATA[No Grayed Text for Read Only Items : AddChildItemBinded is used to...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=2109&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#2109 Author: SuperMario
Subject: 471
Posted: 02 June 2004 at 6:50am

AddChildItemBinded is used to store the value of your property griditems in variables that can be used by other subroutines and functionsin your application.  This "binds" the property grid item to avariable, when the value of the property grid item is changed, thevariable is updated.   Binding only occurs in one direction,that is, when you change the value of a property grid item via thegrid, the value of the variable is updated.  However, if youchange the value of the variable witholut using the grid, the propertygrid item will not be updated, you would need to manually update theproperty grid item to reflect the change.

The "Handler" parameter is the form that has the variable that theproperty grid is bound to.  You can not bind to variables inmodules, the variables must be included within an objects code.

The "Property" parameter is the name of the variable in "stringnotation"  this mean you pass the name of the variable theproperty grid item will be bound to and it can have spaces andupper/lower case letters.  This will appear at the caption for theproperty grid item unless you manually change the caption of theproperty grid item.

Hope this helps
]]> Wed, 02 Jun 2004 06:50:08 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=2109&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#2109 <![CDATA[No Grayed Text for Read Only Items : Hi, thanks for the great example....]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=2107&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#2107 Author: hd3810
Subject: 471
Posted: 01 June 2004 at 8:15pm

Hi,

thanks for the great example. i have tried to look up AddChildItemBinded in the documentation and did not find much description. can someone please share the usage instruction of this function? what is the purpose of this function? what is the "Handler" parameter?

thanks so much.

]]> Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:15:28 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=2107&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#2107 <![CDATA[No Grayed Text for Read Only Items : SuperMario, I have a small follow-up...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=1567&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#1567 Author: Boyd
Subject: 471
Posted: 07 April 2004 at 1:58pm

SuperMario,

I have a small follow-up on this technique that prevents it from being a total solution.  Even if you use this technique, the user can right-click on the value and "Paste" a value.

Any chance this can be fixed for the 8.70 release?

]]> Wed, 07 Apr 2004 13:58:45 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=1567&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#1567 <![CDATA[No Grayed Text for Read Only Items : Opps, that was supposed to read...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=1139&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#1139 Author: SuperMario
Subject: 471
Posted: 24 February 2004 at 11:07am

Opps, that was supposed to read "If you have only one item to display, then add it as aconstraint and set no flags."  I edited the original post so noone else gets confused.]]> Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:07:23 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=1139&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#1139 <![CDATA[No Grayed Text for Read Only Items : Great suggestion, SuperMario....]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=1138&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#1138 Author: Boyd
Subject: 471
Posted: 24 February 2004 at 11:01am

Great suggestion, SuperMario.  Thanks!  I only have 1 item to display, so I obviously didn't set the flag for ItemHasComboButton and it worked.  It turns out that even if there is only one item in the Constraint list, the drop-down arrow is still displayed.

While this is a good workaround, it's a few extra lines of code to implement it.  I hope that Codejock will still consider providing an option to control how read only items are displayed.

]]> Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:01:44 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=1138&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#1138 <![CDATA[No Grayed Text for Read Only Items : No, I am sure there is no way...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=1135&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#1135 Author: SuperMario
Subject: 471
Posted: 24 February 2004 at 10:39am

No, I am sure there is no way to get rid of the "grey" in a read onlyproperty.  All I do to work around this is add the item as aconstraint and set the ConstraintEdit= True, which keeps them from editing the text.  The code belowhas a property called Operating System that will have three items tochose from.  The user can only read the text, they can not changethe values.  But they can still select between the threechoices.  If you have only one item to display, then add it as aconstraint and set no flags. 

    Dim Category As IPropertyGridItem
    Dim Item As IPropertyGridItem
    
    Set Category = wndPropertyGrid.AddCategory("Platform")
    Set Item = Category.AddChildItemBinded(PropertyItemString, Me, "Operating System")
    Item.Constraints.Add "Windows XP"
    Item.Constraints.Add "Windows 2000"
    Item.Constraints.Add "Windows 98"
    Item.ConstraintEdit = True
    Item.Flags = ItemHasComboButton

This will appear to the user as read only.


Edited by SuperMario]]> Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:39:05 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=1135&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#1135 <![CDATA[No Grayed Text for Read Only Items : The Properties Grid displays Read...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=1133&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#1133 Author: Boyd
Subject: 471
Posted: 24 February 2004 at 9:49am

The Properties Grid displays Read Only items in a "grayed" font color.  This is helpful when you need to visually distinguish between items that can be modified and items that are read only.

I have a need to create a property grid that is entirely read only.  Since all items are read only, they all appear in "grayed" text.  Since the "grayed" text can sometimes be harder to read, I would like to be able to disable the "graying" of read-only items.  If this cannot be done in 8.61, could you possible add a feature to the control in 8.62 to allow for this?  Either a flag that disables the special drawing of read-only items or a property that lets you specify the fore color of those items.

Thank you again!

]]> Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:49:52 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=471&PID=1133&title=no-grayed-text-for-read-only-items#1133