Disable an TMemo...

[Espectr0]

Hola,

As the title says, make a new project, put a TMemo and disable it "memo1.Enabled := False", it only disables the use of the mouse, with the keyboard I can continue writing...
is this a bug?

Gracias

[TRon]

is this a bug?

I would expect it is (I am not sure as I do not know enough about macos widgetset internals) because I was unable to locate a specific mention about the subject on the wiki for both carbon and cocoa. Status for widgetset/controls can be read here (though the last update was over a year ago)

edit: assuming you are using cocoa, the nstextview's superclass NSText seem to support disabling text editing (see also apple docs) though I have no idea how that would work out in the LCL widgetset/interface implementation.

[Espectr0]

Thanks, I'll do some research

[Hansaplast]

Feels like a bug indeed.
Just commenting to confirm that I'm seeing this here as well with Lazarus fromtrunk.
Lazarus 3.99 (rev main_3_99-1411-g2c81dff5d9) FPC 3.3.1 aarch64-darwin-cocoa

[TRon]

@Hansaplast:
Thank you for the confirmation and report.

@Espectr0:
Would be nice that in case you got somewhere if you are able to share, if only to update the wiki to confirm the current status. Unfortunately it seems a bit like a lonely task as in all these years it does not seem to have been mentioned/raised once (but tbh I did not spent too much time in the bugtracker about this particular issue).

[Manlio]

A work-around I used in similar situations is to place the misbehaving control inside a TPanel, and then disable the TPanel. Everything inside the TPanel then becomes disabled.

However, notice that when the TPanel is disabled and the controls inside it are effectively disabled too, the appearance of the controls may still be as if they were enabled. In those cases, besides making the parent control disabled, I also change the color of the child controls, for example from white to gray, to make it visually clear to the user that they are disabled.

[jcmontherock]

Or: Memo1.ReadOnly := True;...