Hello,

I would like to create a "widget" in my layout which is an Edit box with vertical scroll bar, however, I want the text to be view-only. And if the user clicks in the text area, I want to have a button that takes them to a checkbox set which presents the choices they can choose for that field.

I have created the textbox, but in order to get the scroll bar to activate, it appears that it must allow Edit in Browse mode. So, I tried making a transparent button the size of the textarea and placing it on top of the Edit box, but once the user clicks on the scroll bar, it appears to bring the textarea forward, allowing the user to edit the text. If the user clicks in the textarea without activating the scroll bar, the button action does work.

Is there a way to create such a "widget" as this?

Thank You!

Barbara

The old school way to handle it is to make a calculation field that equals the original field.

Another way is to use a web viewer and set it to:

"data:text/html," & YourField

This worked perfectly.

Thanks!