Font styles on disabled controls...

[Spiff59]

Why do these controls have text that is identical in appearance when enabled, but they differ when disabled?

#include <GuiConstants.au3>
GUICreate("test", 240, 120, 400, 200)
GUISetBkColor(0xCCCCFF)
GUISetFont(24, 600)
GUICtrlCreateCheckbox(" checkbox", 20,20)
GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_DISABLE)
GUICtrlCreateLabel(" label", 40,60)
GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_DISABLE)
GUISetState()
Sleep(5000)

How do I trash the shadowing on the label?

[lordicast]

Maybe this for the label, I dont get the question though.

#include <GuiConstants.au3>
GUICreate("test", 240, 120, 400, 200)
GUISetBkColor(0xCCCCFF)
GUISetFont(24, 600)
GUICtrlCreateCheckbox(" checkbox", 20,20)
GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_DISABLE)
GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_DISABLE)
GUISetState()
GUICtrlCreateLabel(" label", 40,60)
Sleep(5000)

[Spiff59]

I'd like my disabled label to look the same as my disabled checkbox. They don't.

Neither control has shadowed text when enabled. They look the same.

But the label control gets a white 3D shadow when disabled, the checkbox does not.

(I added the background color and large font just to make the white shadow stand out, it is present with the default color as well)

I've tried messing with the styles but had no luck.

How do I get the disabled controls to look the same?

Edit: I tried this with other types of controls (input, button, radio, etc). It's only the label control that assumes a 3D appearance when disabled.

Edited April 23, 2009 by Spiff59

[lordicast]

I think thats a battle we cant win I looked all through the $styles and $extended styles cant find anything for that seems is does this even when you dont set any font attributes..

[Spiff59]

I just wanted to use the $SS_NOTIFY event on some labels, and be able to disable them under some circumstances.

I'll just maintain a flag to remember their pseudo enabled/disabled state, and when they are "disabled", manually change their color to grey and ignore $SS_NOTIFY.

[Valuater]

This is an easy one guys..

Make the checkbox 15 x 15 and use a label for the text on it

Then all will be labels/checkbox text will look similar when disabled

8)

Edited April 23, 2009 by Valuater

[lordicast]

lol i thought of that too. Then I was damn im lazy, then I looked couldnt find out how so I ate some chips...

[MilesAhead]

This is an easy one guys..

Make the checkbox 15 x 15 and use a label for the text on it

Then all will be labels/checkbox text will look similar when disabled

8)

Ah, true genius at work!! I was banging my head against the wall trying to change the text color of Radio Buttons to accommodate different background colors. Using adjacent labels fixed it up!!

[Bowmore]

I seams to be the result of windows styles.

Running on my XP setup with 'Windows classic style' I get a white shadow, to give the sunken 3D effect, on both. If I change the setup to 'Windows XP style' or 'Media Center style' then only the white shadow to give the sunken 3D effect.