If a group box contains components, shouldn't disabling the group box
also disable the componets inside? I put a text box in a group box and
then disabled the group box. When you run the program, the group box's
components are not grayed like a typcially disabled component. The
components become read only but don't look disabled.

I had planned to disable the group box so the user could see the
components but with them grayed he/she would realize that they were
not useable. But the way it apprently works, it's not apparent at all
that the group box and it's components are disabled.

From the description TEXT BOX i assume you mean MEMO or EDIT.
Try creating a new project and just placing a LABEL, MEMO, and EDIT
control on the form. Disable each. That's how they behave (in or out
of a group box).

There's probably a better way, but for each MEMO or EDIT you could set
the FONT.COLOR to gray, then back to black.