How to hide caret in Delphi TEdit?

Question

I want to remove the caret from a TEdit control in Delphi. I have made the component Enabled := False but the caret still appears. My question is how to remove the caret from a disabled TEdit control?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 05 '11 at 10:25

8

I assume that you mean TEdit control.

The solution is HideCaret function, the only problem is where to call it. The 2 event handlers below worked fine for me:

procedure TForm18.Edit1KeyDown(Sender: TObject; var Key: Word;
  Shift: TShiftState);
begin
  HideCaret(Edit1.Handle);
end;

procedure TForm18.Edit1MouseEnter(Sender: TObject);
begin
  HideCaret(Edit1.Handle);
end;

answered Oct 05 '11 at 10:25

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Thanks. I've found another solution for this problem. I just set ReadOnly with True. – Jordan Borisov Oct 05 '11 at 10:30
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@Jordan That does something else though doesn't it. – David Heffernan Oct 05 '11 at 10:35
@DavidHeffernan Yes it does but I want to remove the caret only for make a text box read only without caret when I click it. – Jordan Borisov Oct 05 '11 at 11:15
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@user246408 thank you, it works in D7 too. But in tEdit there is no "MouseEnter", only "MouseDown". Has something changed in newer Delphi versions? – ZioBit Jul 12 '14 at 15:04

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 05 '16 at 13:48

Place a TApplicationEventscontrol on the form and in the OnIdle event, hide the caret, as follows. Set the event to nil so it only fires once.

procedure TFormMain.AppEventsIdle(Sender: TObject; var Done: Boolean);
begin
  AppEvents.OnIdle := nil;
  HideCaret(Memo1.Handle);
end;

How to hide caret in Delphi TEdit?

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