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Borte, very good points ... this is exactly the kind of discussion that I hoped would evolve.
The interesting thing is - this is one of the areas where Access VBA and regular OFFICE VBA differ ... when I tried your example using an EXCEL form, the behavior was as I outlined ... I checked the OFFICE VBA docs and confirmed this as well.
I don't have ACCESS here, but I was reading the docs for ACCESS VBA and your right ... setting a TEXTBOX to DISABLED and LOCKED does not DIM the control ... strangely (?!) setting the control to DISABLED and UNLOCKED does DIM the control (according to the docs).
Heres another thing ... creating a multi-line (multi-page) TextBox that is DISABLED and LOCKED (not DIMMED) would do the job but the thing is ... it would need to be completely controlled and managed by the script code ... I would imagine that if SCROLLBARS where enabled ... but the control was DISABLED ... the user wouldn't be able to set focus to it, and manipulate the control in any way .. to see the extra amount of data ...
But here's the thing ... I'm not against trying to implement this feature from Office VBA ... in fact, VBA is the primary model from which KIXFORMS was built (not VB) ... Can you give me an example of how this feature would be used ... what would be displayed and what kind or user interaction would be expected ?
[ 28. August 2002, 16:22: Message edited by: Shawn ]
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