Hi Lee,

>>The way I've worked around this is to place the control in a panel and disable the panel leaving the control enabled. It has the effect of "disabling" the control from the user's point of view, but lets you set the colors of the control however you like.

This does not seem to work for me. Enabling and disabling the Panel seems to enable and disable the controls within the Panel, thus changing the colors regardless.

This is my code:

panel1.Enabled = tf;
textBox1.BackColor = bc;
textBox1.ForeColor = fc;

tf, bc and fc are set elsewhere and textbox1 is within panel1

Thanks for your help,

Todd