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Is it possible to have a read only Edit box with white background (well, other than setting the whole background white)? Also, when I change the text in the Edit control via GuiControl it is always completely selected?

Hm, what do you use to display a lot of text? Even if you are happy with a gray-backgrounded readonly Edit control, there's still the problem, that the text it selected after posting it to the control and also, that is it scrolled down. Well, you could send ^{Home} for that, but it is really the only way?

Well, I also did it with ControlSetText which yields unselected text which is not scrolled down. But that seems an eerie way to me. Like if you go from the kitchen to the living room by leaving through the kitchen room window and reentering through the living room window.

I don't know of any easy way, but it's on the to-do list to allow custom background colors for individual controls.

I think the select-all behavior results from navigating/focusing the control rather than using GuiControl. I tested GuiControl to insert new text while an Edit has focus and it didn't cause select-all. But I could be missing something.

There are a lot of messages you can send to an Edit control and I'm not well versed in them yet. In case you need it, here is one that sets the caret position to the top of the control:

Gui +LastFound
SendMessage, 0xB1, 0, 0, Edit1 ; 0xB1 is EM_SETSEL. The first 0 is selection's start pos. and the second is end pos.

Thanks for this feedback about the Edit control. At the very least, I think the documentation needs to be improved about how to set selections, caret positions, etc. But some more built-in functionality would probably be good too.

Thanks, I was beginning to wonder about how to set the caret position!

I'm looking forward to new versions for more customization. Hm, will it ever be possible to change the font for single words in ReadOnly edit boxes? Or at least the style or color... something like "After all this <b>is</b> a bold word."? And can this also be extended to tool tips?

But any way: You are doing a great job, Chris!
(Has to be said every now and then!)

I don't think so because Edit controls (which are a built-in feature of the OS) don't support it. However, there will probably be a RichEdit control someday, which might offer these capabilities.

It seems unlikely because a ToolTip's appearance is controlled and standardized by the OS.

Bump... Is this possible? Custom control colors seem to be overridden by +Readonly... I'm using a light grey color for my background as a workaround, but the white edit box (without +Readonly) looks much nicer on a grey background.

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