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ReadOnlyDisplayAppearance behaviour: Best mode missing (disabled + c&p + scrolling)

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Hi Isomorphic,

IMHO the best mode for read-only FormItems is missing from the configuration options:
  • Default-ReadOnlyDisplayAppearance.READONLY is missing visual pointers to the read-only nature of the items
  • ReadOnlyDisplayAppearance.DISABLED also disables copy&paste (and perhaps scrolling)
  • ReadOnlyDisplayAppearance.STATIC takes away information about the nature of an item (e.g.: free-entry or dropdown? text or "real" date?) and gives an "unknown" UI to a user who also knows the readWrite-version of the form.
A setting of ReadOnlyDisplayAppearance.DISABLED plus copy and paste and easy scrolling via mousewheel and scrollbars would be the best behaviour for me. I'd say it is not possible to use anything else than ReadOnlyDisplayAppearance.DISABLED currently for the reasons given. But then the no-copy&paste is annoying and the no-scrolling (which might be a bug) is perceived as UI defect (happened to me).

I'm using current 5.0p/5.1d.

Best regards
Blama

PS: You removed the "start as disabled"-mode from the online showcase. I'm sure you have reasons for this, but it would make testing easier.

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