Windows Forms: How do you change the font color for a disabled label

Answer 1

Have you tried implementing the EnabledChanged event? Or are you looking for more of a "styles" property on the control (as far as I know, they don't exist)?

Answer 2

Why is this an issue?

I would personally let windows handle it. People are used to disabled items looking a certain way, so if you start trying to change every aspect of the way they look, you might start confusing your users.

Answer 3

You will probably need to override the Paint event. All toolkits I've used so far have the same problem when the control is disabled. Just guess they let windows do the drawing of the text. As for the labels, well they are not an standard control, and that's why they are working.

Answer 4

Take a look at the ControlPaint.DrawStringDisabled method; it might be something helpful. I've used it when overriding the OnPaint event for custom controls.

ControlPaint.DrawStringDisabled(g, this.Text, this.Font, Color.Transparent,
                new Rectangle(CustomStringWidth, 5, StringSize2.Width, StringSize2.Height), StringFormat.GenericTypographic);

Answer 5

For the textbox, you can set the readonly property to true while keeping the control enabled. You can then set the BackColor and ForeColor property to whatever you like. The user will still be able to click on the control and have a blinking cursor, but they won't be able to edit anything.

Not sure if this extrapolates out to other control types like combo boxes or whatnot as I haven't had a chance to experiment yet, but it's worth a shot.

Answer 6

Solution: changing color of a disabled control

http://codeforfuture.com/2008/12/24/solution-changing-color-of-disabled-checkbox-or-radiobutton/

If you still have issues then comment me, I'll try to reply.

Jayvardhan Patil
Code for future