RE: General Copy/Paste (and other) questions

From: Tim Townsend

Date: 23 Aug 2007

Text in an enabled read-only editor widget is not grey.


-Tim Townsend


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Andruscavage [mailto:ae0b643c-b939-8280-de11-71038543c80c] 
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 4:11 PM
To: Tim Townsend; 
Subject: RE: General Copy/Paste (and other) questions

> From:  [mailto:] On Behalf Of Tim 
> Townsend
>  
> For addresses and other cases where you have multiple lines that can 
> be considered one unit, it often makes sense to display them in an 
> editor widget instead of multiple fill-ins.  Then if you make the 
> editor enabled but read-only (instead of disabled) users will have the

> Select All and Copy options available to them.

Read-only makes the text grey and much less legible.  I have that now -
and the users are not happy with it.

10 years ago users were happy when you gave them a Progress application.
Not any more :-(

And I have another entire Progress GUI application that needs to be
modernized and I have no idea where to begin.

Eric