>Hello Gunnar.
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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 ;)
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>so, in order to keep all the other functionalities, i will have to call the callongs object events from the shape
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>umm.. why you don't want to put your textbox to container with label that set to barcode font to let user know that it is barcode stuffs. This way you'll have the eggs and the pie ;)


hehehe, ja that would be one possibility, i just thought a background picture would look better, but i'll play around with it, see what i can come up with.

thanks for your help!