Disable control without greying it out

[tomatthe]

I get the feeling I'm going about this the wrong way, but hoping someone can help me out.

Basically i have a label box with some text in it, and it looks something like below. Right now only the right part of the link is click able because the label control for the Blah Blah part is on top of the Http: part of it. I tried disabling the label control ($GUI_DISABLE) with the BLah Blah text in it, but it turns the text gray which doesn't look very good. Is there some other way I should go about doing this? For the link I'm using some code from these forums, but its basically just another label. Pretty much what i want is to have one label on top of another with the top one click able and the bottom one just text.

Blah blah blah

blah blah

blah blah Http://www.google.com

[GEOSoft]

tomatthe;

You have been around here long enough (4 years) to know that it's best to post some replicator code. It's probably just label positioning but from the 3 lines of non-code and the brief description you are not giving anyone a fair chance to help you.

[tomatthe]

Yeah I was being a bit lazy. They are overlapping labels basically. In this example i would like to be able to click the entire text that says "I want to click this label to open notepad" but that isn't possible because it overlaps the other label. I was trying to use the $GUI_DISABLE option on the first label and that does allow me to click all of the "I want to click this label and open notepad" link but it grays the text in the first label which i don't want.

Kinda thinking there is another option I might be able to use for doing this, or I could create small 1 line labels and break it up, but that doesn't really seem like the best way of doing it.

tks

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

#include <StaticConstants.au3>

#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=

$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 625, 200, 315, 111)

$Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("This is a label isn't that special, it runs for a few lines and ends up being about 1/2 across thelabel field longwordhere", 112, 32, 146, 75)

GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0xFF00FF)

GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 8, 800, 0, "MS Sans Serif")

$Label2 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("I want to click this lable and open notepad", 216, 95, 204, 17)

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

While 1

$nMsg = GUIGetMsg()

Switch $nMsg

Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

Exit

Case $Label2

Run("notepad.exe")

Exit

EndSwitch

WEnd

[GEOSoft]

If you set background colors on those labels you can see exactly what's wrong. It is indeed the overlap and you will have to move $Label2 out a bit.

[tomatthe]

Tks, I was just hoping there was a way to have overlapping controls.

[reb]

Tks, I was just hoping there was a way to have overlapping controls.

You could always use ControlHide() if it is not being used.

REB

[martin]

Yeah I was being a bit lazy. They are overlapping labels basically. In this example i would like to be able to click the entire text that says "I want to click this label to open notepad" but that isn't possible because it overlaps the other label. I was trying to use the $GUI_DISABLE option on the first label and that does allow me to click all of the "I want to click this label and open notepad" link but it grays the text in the first label which i don't want.

Kinda thinking there is another option I might be able to use for doing this, or I could create small 1 line labels and break it up, but that doesn't really seem like the best way of doing it.

tks

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

#include <StaticConstants.au3>

#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=

$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 625, 200, 315, 111)

$Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("This is a label isn't that special, it runs for a few lines and ends up being about 1/2 across thelabel field longwordhere", 112, 32, 146, 75)

GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0xFF00FF)

GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 8, 800, 0, "MS Sans Serif")

$Label2 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("I want to click this lable and open notepad", 216, 95, 204, 17)

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

While 1

$nMsg = GUIGetMsg()

Switch $nMsg

Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

Exit

Case $Label2

Run("notepad.exe")

Exit

EndSwitch

WEnd

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=
$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 625, 200, 315, 111)
$Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("This is a label isn't that special, it runs for a few lines and ends up being about 1/2 across thelabel field longwordhere", 112, 32, 146, 75)
GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0xFF00FF)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 8, 800, 0, "MS Sans Serif")
$Label2 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("I want to click this lable and open notepad", 216, 95, 204, 17)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $GUI_EVENT_PRIMARYDOWN;$Label2
            Opt("MouseCoordMode", 2)
            $mp = MouseGetPos()
            $lp = ControlGetPos($Form1, "", $Label2)
            If inside($mp, $lp) Then
                Run("notepad.exe")
                Exit
            EndIf
    EndSwitch
WEnd


Func inside($pt, $rect)
    If $pt[0] < $rect[0] Or $pt[0] > $rect[0] + $rect[2] Then Return False
    If $pt[1] < $rect[1] Or $pt[1] > $rect[1] + $rect[3] Then Return False
    Return True
EndFunc   ;==>inside