Textboxes on my UserForm are not dimmed when disabled

[sbendbuckeye]

I have an Excel UserForm with 2 textboxes on it, txtBegDate and txtEndDate. For monthly or semimonthly payrolls they contain the day or days when payroll is processed (eg 1 and 15, 15 and EOM or just 15 for monthly, etc.). If the payroll is weekly then the textboxes need to be dimmed.

In the after update event for the ListBox which allows the user to select the payroll code I have logic similar to this:

txtBegDate.Enabled = IsMonthlyPayroll or IsSemiMonthlyPayroll

The Is functions are boolean and return True or False. Even thougth they are not greyed out they appear to be locked as you cannot give them focus or enter data into them. I'm using ExcelXP if that makes a difference.

 

[HalfAce]

Hi sbendbuckeye,
Give this a shot. I think it'll work for what you want.
Might be a better / quicker way but it works for me.
(I'm using xl 2000 though, so...)

Private Sub DimmedTextBoxTest()
If Not MonthlyPayroll Then
    If Not SemiMonthlyPayroll Then
txtBegDate.Enabled = False
txtBegDate.BackColor = &H8000000F
Else:
txtBegDate.Enabled = True
End If
End If
End Sub

You can choose the background color you want by looking at what's offered in the textbox background color properties.

This work in xp?
Dan

 

[Juan Pablo González]

Check the BackColor property to see if its a Windows color the one that is there, or one from the palette.

 

[sbendbuckeye]

Thanks,

It worked like a charm. I added the following line to set the background color back to white if it was reenabled:

txtBegDate.BackColor = &HFFFFFF