Usng an image to "disable" a group

[Eric Corbett]

Hi Peter,

I guess I assumed when you said you were using an image to block controls that the image was of the group.

Can you take a snapshot of the group and then use that image as the disabled looking "group" by blending it and hide the real group?


On Sep 20, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> I have a stack with a series of groups on it.  I need to control the order
> in which data is entered into the groups.  The obvious/easy way is to
> enable/disable the groups as needed but I'm not happy with the way groups
> look when they are disabled.
> 
> I vaguely remember a thread about using images to do this since clicks
> within the image don't make it through to the underlying controls.  When I
> tried this, clicks on buttons that were under the image did not trigger any
> mouse events on them, as hoped, but field controls still get focus and I
> can type into them.
> 
> It seems like this isn't going to work so looking for other ways to achieve
> this without having to go through every control in the group and adjusting
> their properties to disable them.  Alternatively, is there a way to control
> how a group looks when it is disabled?
> 
> Pete
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