Re: Forms 4.0 Question : Is is possible to make a non-navigable text item not appear GRAYED?

%> Is it possible to make a text item non-enabled and yet make it not
%> grey? That is, is is possible to make a text item non-navigable, and
%> non-mouse-navigable and yet display it in bold (i.e. not grayed). I
%> want the text item to display text in bold but to be non-navigable and
%> non-mouse navigable. I have tried defining a visual attribute to be
%> bold i.e.
%>
%> SET_ITEM_PROPERTY(text_item,VISUAL_ATTRIBUTE,'bold_text_visual_attribute');
%>
%> but this appears not to work. I basically want to bold/grey a text item
%> programatically while making sure it is non-navigable.
%>
%> Can anyone help?

If an item is disabled, the GUI you're running on renders it accordingly. This is typically a dimmed (or grey) font to indicate that the item is "not relevant here".

If you want an item which the mouse-wielding end user cannot absolutely interact with in any way, you should probably change your item type from "Text Item" to "Display Item" instead. The Display Item is a view-only, lightweight type of item which can take on any visual attribute that a normal item can. You can make the display item bevelled in or out or not at all. The point is, you don't have to disable the display item to stop the mouse from clicking there.

If you use a normal text item, then the only way to prevent the mouse from clicking there is to make it disabled. You can use the item properties named INSERT_ALLOWED and UPDATE_ALLOWED to control whether the user can actually change the contents of the text item in a new record or queried record, respectively -- independent of the item's being enabled.

The Navigable property only governs whether a keyboard or programmatic navigation will enter that field or not as part of default navigation sequence. The mouse user can always click into the field unless it's disabled.

Hope this helps.

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