>>I have a custom textbox class, and I would somehow like to add functionality to show when the textbox does not contain valid text. Basically, I just want a method that I can manually call that pops an exclamation point or other icon up next to the textbox.
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>>Anybody know how to do this? I know I can probably change the background color of the textbox or something, but that might look a little hokey.
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>No, it doesn't look hokey at all. We change our BackColor to Red, ForeColor to White to indicate there's a problem. Our user's love it.
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>~~Bonnie

Well, maybe I will do the hokey pokey and try it out. I'm sure if your user's love it, mine will too.

Thanks! :-)