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pitersmx
pitersmx

Reputation: 957

Disable form but keep each of its elements look like enabled

I would like to disable the whole Form but still, keep each of this Form elements like TextBox, Buttons etc to look like enabled.

So, I want to block user interactions on those elements, but preserve it's standard look, not grayed out etc.

Can that be done in kind of automatic way or one just need to manually handle EnabledChanged events for each of affected controls?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 250

Answers (2)

NtFreX
NtFreX

Reputation: 11357

The easiest solution would be to have a transparent image on top of all controls and you just show it when you want to disable the controls.

This image will catch all mouse inputs but it is possible that the controls can still be selected by keyboard.

Upvotes: 0

Harsh
Harsh

Reputation: 3751

For all the controls, the "backcolor" property is set to window by default. Select all of them and set to white (or the desired color) to get the same appearance. You might want to do the same with text and border color. Its all about the level of customization you want.

To have complete control over the colors, you will need to redraw them.

protected override void OnPaint ( System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs e )
{
    if ( Enabled )
    {
        //use normal realization
        base.OnPaint (e);
        return;
    }
    //custom drawing
    using ( Brush aBrush = new SolidBrush( "YourCustomDisableColor" ) )
    {
        e.Graphics.DrawString( Text, Font, aBrush, ClientRectangle );
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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