Question

i have a System.Windows.Forms.Panel control in a windows application that has many labels and textboxes within the panel. When you call the Panel.Enabled = false command all of the textboxes and labels go gray and become un-editable which is the desired effect. Is there a way to overload the light gray colors when the panel is disabled?

Solution used:

Since the disabled color cant be overiden when disabled the following was used to disable only text boxes and labels on the Panel rather than the blanked Panel.Enabled = false;.

//Loop through the Member info Panel and find all the group boxes  foreach (Control cItem in Panel.Controls) {     //A group box is found      if (cItem is GroupBox)     {         //Loop through all the group box components         foreach (Control cSubItem in cItem.Controls)         {             //If its a label of text box disable it             if (cSubItem is TextBox || cSubItem is Label)              {                  cSubItem.Enabled = false;              }         }     } } 

Answer 1

As an alternative: If the controls you wish to have a different enabled/disabled color you could iterate through the controls registered with the panel and assign their EnabledChanged event a custom function to change their color (based on type I assume). You’d probably want to filter the type of control you modify with this but you could use this to achieve your goal I believe.

Update: Try this: public void deselected(object sender, EventArgs e) { foreach (Control c in this.Controls) { //TODO:check type of control and change background color } } That will need to be placed inside your Form class but then you can use it on a event. Hope that helps.