I have seen many posts on workarounds for a read only combobox. Everything I have seen so far has been at least 5 years old.
I need a readonly combobox. It is a dropdownlist. I want them to be able to choose options from the list, which is saved in a database. When they want to review that information I load it back into the form from the database. At this point I make every control on the form read only. Disable makes it unreadable. I want to be able to do this to the combobox as well. I want the selection to be the saved selection and not allow the user to change it but it needs to be readable.
At the moment I have used the create a textbox on top and show one or the other depending on which action is being used. I would love to find something more efficient and easier. I would prefer not to have to use third party code, overloading functions or creating a whole new class. Simple and fast is what I am looking for.
Any thoughts?
JR