textctrl background colour

[Marco Prosperi]

hi all, it seems is not possibile to change the background colour of a
disabled textctrl. You can verify it with the demo, just putting
(py2.5, wxpy 2.8.10.1, Vista):

t1.Enable(False)
t1.SetBackgroundColour(wx.BLACK)

Can you suggest me a workaround for this? Leaving t1.Enable(True) but
eating all the key pressing trying to change the textctrl value has
drawbacks? Or is there something more straightforward?

thanks in advance,

Marco

[Mike Driscoll]

Hi Marco,

My guess is that this is a limitation with the native text control.
Did you try changing the color before disabling it?

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Mike Driscoll

Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org

[Marco Prosperi]

yes, without success

[Robin Dunn]

The only other idea I have is to use the read-only style, but it looks
like that only has effect when used with the constructor, you can't
switch it back and forth after the widget has been created.

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Robin Dunn
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