> I recently posted this on the incorrect forum, and so I would like to
> ask the question here.  I did get some good ideas on the other group,
> but I have not yet come up with a solution for me.  I am using VS2005
> (express edition) and coding in vb.net.
>
> I wrote an application that uses 30 checkboxes to set the
> configuration of a device.  The device is constantly polled, and its
> response is decoded and reported in a mirror battery of another set of
> 30 checkboxes.  Therefore, the app is broken down into 1 grouping of
> checkboxes that represent your desired state, and another grouping of
> checkboxes that reports current actual state (these may differ for
> various reasons).   I used the checkboxes such that if the box is
> checked it represents a true for that state.
>
> It all worked just fine, but the customer freaked out because they
> kept wanting to access and click the "current state" group of
> checkboxes, or they would simply look at the incorrect group, no
> matter how I seperated them into groups on different parts of the app.
> What they demanded is to leave the functionality of the checkboxes as
> is, but to simply gray the boxes on the "current states" to make them
> easier to distinguish.
>
> Therefore, all I want to do is take the little white box on the
> checkbox control, and make it slightly gray.  I do not want to adjust
> the functionality at all.  I assume I will have to make a new control
> class and inherit the controlbox control and make the modifications
> there.  I haven't been able to work this out yet.  Other options would
> be to make a couple of images, one of a grayed box and the other with
> a grayed box with a check, and just swap the images as necessary.
> This seems more complicated than it should be.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> -Rdog
>

> GhostInAK wrote:
>
>> Hello schae***@hotmail.com,
>>
>> Check out CheckBox.Enabled
>>
>> -Boo
>>
> While that is the look of the box that I want, I still need the text
> and the check to be in black.  I believe I can still alter the
> Checkbox.checked state even if it was disabled, so if you can tell me
> how to get the text / check to black?
>

> Hello RaoulDuke,
>
> Override the control's paint procedure.
>
> It may be best to just make a new control.
>
> -Boo
>
> > GhostInAK wrote:
> >
> >> Hello schae***@hotmail.com,
> >>
> >> Check out CheckBox.Enabled
> >>
> >> -Boo
> >>
> > While that is the look of the box that I want, I still need the text
> > and the check to be in black.  I believe I can still alter the
> > Checkbox.checked state even if it was disabled, so if you can tell me
> > how to get the text / check to black?
> >

> Yea, I think that I will have to make a new control class and start by
> inheriting the standard checkbox control.  However, I don't know how to
> override the paint procedure...
>
>
> GhostInAK wrote:
> > Hello RaoulDuke,
> >
> > Override the control's paint procedure.
> >
> > It may be best to just make a new control.
> >
> > -Boo
> >
> > > GhostInAK wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello schae***@hotmail.com,
> > >>
> > >> Check out CheckBox.Enabled
> > >>
> > >> -Boo
> > >>
> > > While that is the look of the box that I want, I still need the text
> > > and the check to be in black.  I believe I can still alter the
> > > Checkbox.checked state even if it was disabled, so if you can tell me
> > > how to get the text / check to black?
> > >

> *bounce*    Still hoping for some help on this.  It seems it is much
> harder than it should be.  Searching this forum, I see other people
> have had the same question in the past, but I haven't really found a
> suitable answer.
>
> The one way that almost works is to remove the text associated with
> the checkbox and put a label there instead.  Then you can set the
> enabled property to false which gives the gray look nicely.  The only
> trouble is the checkmark also becomes grayed out and too difficult to
> see properly.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> RaoulDuke wrote:
>
>> Yea, I think that I will have to make a new control class and start
>> by inheriting the standard checkbox control.  However, I don't know
>> how to override the paint procedure...
>>
>> GhostInAK wrote:
>>
>>> Hello RaoulDuke,
>>>
>>> Override the control's paint procedure.
>>>
>>> It may be best to just make a new control.
>>>
>>> -Boo
>>>
>>>> GhostInAK wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello schae***@hotmail.com,
>>>>>
>>>>> Check out CheckBox.Enabled
>>>>>
>>>>> -Boo
>>>>>
>>>> While that is the look of the box that I want, I still need the
>>>> text and the check to be in black.  I believe I can still alter the
>>>> Checkbox.checked state even if it was disabled, so if you can tell
>>>> me how to get the text / check to black?
>>>>

"RaoulDuke" <schae***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1156442230.498976.168300@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> *bounce*    Still hoping for some help on this.  It seems it is much
> harder than it should be.  Searching this forum, I see other people
> have had the same question in the past, but I haven't really found a
> suitable answer.
>
> The one way that almost works is to remove the text associated with the
> checkbox and put a label there instead.  Then you can set the enabled
> property to false which gives the gray look nicely.  The only trouble
> is the checkmark also becomes grayed out and too difficult to see
> properly.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> RaoulDuke wrote:
>> Yea, I think that I will have to make a new control class and start by
>> inheriting the standard checkbox control.  However, I don't know how to
>> override the paint procedure...
>>
>>
>> GhostInAK wrote:
>> > Hello RaoulDuke,
>> >
>> > Override the control's paint procedure.
>> >
>> > It may be best to just make a new control.
>> >
>> > -Boo
>> >
>> > > GhostInAK wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Hello schae***@hotmail.com,
>> > >>
>> > >> Check out CheckBox.Enabled
>> > >>
>> > >> -Boo
>> > >>
>> > > While that is the look of the box that I want, I still need the text
>> > > and the check to be in black.  I believe I can still alter the
>> > > Checkbox.checked state even if it was disabled, so if you can tell me
>> > > how to get the text / check to black?
>> > >
>