Making+a+Text+Window+read-only+(LBB)

//by Richard Russell, September 2016//

A TEXTEDITOR control (or a TEXTBOX) can easily be made read-only using the _ES_READONLY stylebit, but this doesn't work with a **Text Window**. You can achieve the desired result using the code below:

code format="lb" open "Read Only Text Window" for text as #w hw = hwnd(#w) calldll #user32, "SendMessageA", hw as ulong, _ _EM_SETREADONLY as long, 1 as long, 0 as long, r as long #w "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." wait code