I really did mean that I wanted to disable it. It's not just for a textfield but for any control. I wanted to turn off all responses for any given control (clicks, cursor changes, etc.) just like it was disabled. I just didn't want it to look like it was disabled. My guess was that the method Win32::GUI uses to disable a control calls multiple functions in the underlying api to achieve the final result. I was just looking for a way to do this without the steps that change the appearance of the control. I just don't know how this is done. I have looked win32.pm and gui.pm but just can't seem to figure it out.

Update:
Setting the -readonly property changes the appearance of the control by making the background gray. The idea is to keep it looking the same but non-functional.

In reply to Re^4: Disable Control in Win32::GUI by ChrisR
in thread Disable Control in Win32::GUI by ChrisR

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