Highlighting Selection in non-editable text boxes

[Denis]

Hello all,

a quick question.

For a non-editable text box is there anyway to highlight the
background (like when you hold the mouse button and move the mouse
over words in WORD or Explorer).

This functionality exists for fields using hilite, and backgroundcolor
only lets you change the entire background color. I tried it with
SelStart and SelEnd and achived the effect I'm looking for, but the
text sprite must be editable. Which unfortunilty is not posible.

I've studdied other postings and one of the solutions posted was to
make a colored sprite and change it's size when the user clicks. Has
anyone actually done anything like this? Care to post it?

Have I forgot anything? Ah yes, Windows 2000 Pro with Director MX,
also a boss who is getting more and more irritating as the days go
by....


Saludos from south-east Spain and thanking you all in advance,
Denis

[Denis]

Please, someone must have an answer to this

it's really important!



[email]dweldon@hotmail.com[/email] (Denis) wrote in message news:<bb9740e0.0307100925.3f507d94@posting.google. com>...

> Hello all,
>
> a quick question.
>
> For a non-editable text box is there anyway to highlight the
> background (like when you hold the mouse button and move the mouse
> over words in WORD or Explorer).
>
> This functionality exists for fields using hilite, and backgroundcolor
> only lets you change the entire background color. I tried it with
> SelStart and SelEnd and achived the effect I'm looking for, but the
> text sprite must be editable. Which unfortunilty is not posible.
>
> I've studdied other postings and one of the solutions posted was to
> make a colored sprite and change it's size when the user clicks. Has
> anyone actually done anything like this? Care to post it?
>
> Have I forgot anything? Ah yes, Windows 2000 Pro with Director MX,
> also a boss who is getting more and more irritating as the days go
> by....
>
>
> Saludos from south-east Spain and thanking you all in advance,
> Denis