>>>I'd like to use an editbox to display progress information in an application. It should probably be read-only, but I want the information to scroll as needed and I want users to be able to scroll up and down as expected...
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>>>So I think I need to keep the box editable, but make it impossible for people to click within the text area (or at least to add information). I found the thread which shos how to make the box scroll with this REFRESH method:
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>>>DODEFAULT()
>>>THIS.SelStart = LEN(THIS.Value)
>>>NODEFAULT
>>>THIS.SetFocus()
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>>>So I need to add a way to keep the mouse out of the text area (but allow it to manipulate the scroll-bars...
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>>>Ideas?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>Michael
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>>I think making it read-only is the best idea but if you truely only want to have then access the scrollbars you can set the tabstop to false and put a shape object over the editbox. That way when they click they are clicking on the shape object and they can't tab to it. To allow access to the scroll bars you may need to use SYSMETRIC(14) and SYSMETRIC(15) to know how much room to leave for the scroll bars.
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>Yes, I think that may be the way to go - or have the keypress event return .f.

Just an FYI the readonly setting on my editboxes doesn't make the scrollbars disabled for me.