I'm looking for a way to disable a control (widget) without changing it's appearance. I would like to be able to do this for any type of control. I'm using Activestate perl 5.8.7 and Win32::GUI 1.03 on win xp.

I tried $control->Enable(0) but the control still gets greyed out. I'm using activestate perl 5.8.7 and Win32::GUI 1.03 on win xp. Here's a brief example:

 
#!c:\perl58\bin\wperl.exe -W
use strict;
use Win32::GUI;
use Win32::API;

our $mainform = Win32::GUI::Window->new(
                -name=>'main',
                -text=>'main',
                -width=>800,-height=>600, 
                ) or die "window creation failed: $!\n";

our $test = $mainform->AddTextfield(
            -name=>'test',
            -text=>'test',
            -left=>200,-top=>200, 
            -width=>100,-height=>20,
            ) or die "control creation failed: $!\n";
$test->Enable(0);
$mainform->Show();
Win32::GUI::Dialog;
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I also tried to set the onClick event to an empty sub which didn't work either

 
our $test = $mainform->AddTextfield(
            -name=>'test',
            -text=>'test',
            -left=>200,-top=>200, 
            -width=>100,-height=>20,
            -onClick=>sub{},
            ) or die "control creation failed: $!\n";
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I'd really like to find a way to disable the functional aspects of the control without changing the way it looks.

Thanks, Chris

Update
I found at least one fairly easy way that works:

#!c:\perl58\bin\wperl.exe -w

use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::GUI();

# Constants
use constant WM_NCHITTEST      => 0x0084;
use constant HTCAPTION         => 2;



our $mainform = Win32::GUI::Window->new(
                -name=>'main',
                -text=>'main',
                -width=>800,-height=>600, 
                ) or die "window creation failed: $!\n";

our $test = $mainform->AddTextfield(
            -name=>'test',
            -text=>'test',
            -left=>200,-top=>200, 
            -width=>100,-height=>20,
            ) or die "control creation failed: $!\n";

$test->Hook(WM_NCHITTEST,sub { $_[0]->Result(HTCAPTION); 0;});

$mainform->Show();
Win32::GUI::Dialog();
exit(0);
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Now if I can only figure out how to have multiple Hook()s per control to handle different messages...

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