I presume you are referring to the type of combobox that has a text field
that people can type in, as well as a dropdown list.
The Style property in this case is csDropDown. Change it to csDropDownList
and it becomes a read-only list, with no user entry permitted.
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> Sent: Saturday, 22 January 2000 06:10
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> Subject: [DUG]: Disabled combobox without grey text
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>
> I have a dynamically created form which contains a number of TEdit and
> TCombobox controls. Depending on various runtime conditions, some of the
> controls need to be read-only and some can be changed.
>
> I set the ReadOnly property of the TEdit controls to True, but I
> have to set
> Enabled to False on the TCombobox controls. Unfortunately this
> greys out the
> text which is not what I want.
>
> Is there a way of preventing a user from changing a TCombobox without the
> text being greyed out?
>
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