Hi, Chip.
You are correct that disabling a group box doesn't disable any of the
controls that appear as children of that group. That's pretty typical of
Windows UI programming. In fact, you'll find that Microsoft's UI
guidelines recommend that you do not disable group boxes (from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511459.aspx):
*Don't disable group boxes.* To indicate that a group of controls
doesn't currently apply, disable all the controls within the group box,
but not the group box itself. This approach is more accessible and can
be supported consistently by all UI frameworks.
Typically, since you already know your controls, a simple routine to set
their states based on their IDs is fairly common. That being said, there
are all kinds of ways to enable/disable controls on the fly. Do you have
a specific example of what you're trying to accomplish.
Aaron
On 9/30/2012 7:29 PM, Chip Orange wrote:
Hi Aaron (or anyone),
I'd like to be able to enable/disable all the controls in a group at once.
I've tried setting the .enabled and .tabstop properties of the group itself,
and that doesn't do anything; and I've looked for a collection listing the
controls so I could run through them and enable or disable all of them, and
can't find any such collection.
Can you suggest any way I can disable all the controls in a group other than
list each one by name?
Thanks.
Chip
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