whisd@sersun1.essex.ac.uk (Whiteside S D B) (06/01/91)
I want to turn my child EDIT window from editable to read-only. One way would be to create a static window and put the text in. But I've seen a Windows prog that has a read-only edit window. (WinInfo told me it was an edit: but it doesn't have a caret and it doesn't let you type). Another advantage to edit is the scroll bar handling. But I can't find anything anywhere that tells me how to make an edit window read-only. I've tried sub-classing, which knocks out the typing but not the caret. Is there a neater (undocumented) way of doing this? It might be a ES_ style or a EM_ notification message but the docs don't mention it (Petzold/BC++ Help/Windows.h - can't get programmer's reference guide). Can you help? THanks, Simon Whiteside