Re: Can you scroll StaticText

[Terry Ford <tmford at shaw dot ca>]

On 31-Jul-04, at 5:00 AM, Greg Olson-Hyde wrote:

> G'day,
>
> I need to be able to scroll some text that the user can't edit. They 
> are user instructions that will not fit on the window.
> I have tried an EditField that is not enabled and then using a 
> ScrollBar control, but the text goes gray and does not look right.
> Can you scroll StaticText? I have tried but not succeeded.
>
> Is there something else?
Sure, set the EditField's ReadOnly property to True. I do this all the 
time.
> Also, can you make an EditField have a transparent background?
Not at this time.

Terry Ford

OS X 10.3.4, RB 5.5.3

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