>>>Hello Gunnar.
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>>>Bring shape to the top of text box and make it transparent. this way, when uoir text box gets the focus, the shape's fill will be visible on textbox.
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>>Hi Vladimir
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>>Thanks for your response. ya, i thought about that - even tried that - and you're correct, the shape always shows, but the i gotta refere the click(), the mouse pointer, mousedown(), etc to the text box from the shape.
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>>i realy didn't wanna do that if i don't have to - any ideas in that regard?
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>no, there is no other way. just out of curiosity, what you're trying to achieve? may be there is a better way ;)


well, i have a 'havy' textbox class - with lots of functionality in it. i am now creating a subclass for a 'BarCode Scanner' Textbox with specific functionality.

i want to visually let the user know (by a different background, for testing now a fill style, later maybe a picture) that this a textbox for scanning.

so, in order to keep all the other functionalities, i will have to call the callongs object events from the shape

if you have any ideas, i sure would like to hear them.

thanks for all your help!