[wxPython-users] Read Only wx.CheckBox

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Mark Erbaugh wrote:

> I thought about that.  We usually think of a checkbox as a button and
> buttons can't be made read only, only disabled.  In this case, I am using
> the checkbox to indicate the On/Off setting (True/False) of a Boolean
> field in a database.  When the user is viewing the corresponding record
> (read-only), I make the text fields read-only instead of disabling them.
> The user can select text, but can't change it.  I'm not sure of the proper
> paradigm for a checkbox.  Maybe I shouldn't use it here, but a lot of
> programs do.

Mark,

   If there's no method bound to the checkbox nothing will be permanently
changed. I don't recall -- without looking it up -- if there's a CB_READONLY
flag; there is for textCtrls: TE_READONLY.

Rich

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