Change appearance of text box to a line

[sephiroth2906]

Good afternoon all!

I thought this would be simple, but I cannot find a format for it. I want to cause my text boxes to look like lines instead of boxes. Am I missing something, or is this not possible?

Thanks!

[ssanfu]

I want to cause my text boxes to look like lines instead of boxes

Not possible. A text box is a text box. There is a line control, if you want to create a line.
Why have a text box look like a line? You can hide (make not visible) the text box......

[CJ_London]

you could set the backcolour to the required colour and the height to say 1mm

[sephiroth2906]

Why have a text box look like a line?

Essentially I just wanted text output in the "box" to appear as a field that looks like a line, not a box, sort of like This____________

For some reason I thought this would be a setting for the appearance of the box. Once it was not there, I figured it was just a complicated combination of settings. I appreciate the education though, I can make them transparent and put in lines then. I was just hoping to avoid the extra work.

Thanks!

[sephiroth2906]

Turns out it is possible!

You have to right click on the text box in design mode and choose "special effects". One of the choices there is a line. Make sure you have the background transparent, and you have a text box with the appearance of a line. It doesn't appear that this can be changed in the properties box where I was spending most of my time. Once you go back to Form mode, the box now looks like a line.

Thanks!

[CJ_London]

I think I see what you require

this might work for you

Use a combination of the format property and the underline property for the textbox

1. set borderstyle to transparent
2. set the font underline to yes
3. for a number field set the format property to ;;_____________;_____________

set the number of underscore characters to be less than the width of the textbox and the number of semi colons on the datatype - see this link for more about the format property

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib.../ff823190.aspx

click through for each datatype

numbers have the most format options

positive;negative;0;null

[sephiroth2906]

Thanks Ajax. I was busy editing my post while you posted this with a solution. One of my co-workers figured it out while messing around in context menus. I didn't think to look there.

[sephiroth2906]

Thanks Ajax. I was busy editing my post while you posted this with a solution. One of my co-workers figured it out while messing around in context menus. I didn't think to look there.

Now, if someone could tell me how to delete a post off this forum since I double posted here, I would be most grateful.

Thanks!

[CJ_London]

don't know if that can be done by ordinary subscriber - but I've learned something new today - I thought 'chiselled' meant something else!

[sephiroth2906]

It most definitely does not refer to my abs

[ssanfu]

I learned something also. Thanks for posting back with your solution.

It most definitely does not refer to my abs

Me also. I've worked out so much I went past the six-pack to a keg.......