StaticText – PB Docs 2018

You use a StaticText control to display text to the user or to
describe a control that does not have text associated with it, such as
a list box or edit control.

The user cannot change the text, but you can change the text for
a StaticText control in a script by assigning a string to the
control’s Text property.

StaticText controls have events associated with them, but you
will probably seldom write scripts for them because users do not
expect to interact with static text.

Indicating accelerator
keys

One use of a StaticText control is to label a list box or edit
control. If you assign an accelerator key to a list box or edit
control, you need to indicate the accelerator key in the text that
labels the control. Otherwise, the user would have no way of knowing
that an accelerator key is defined for the control. This technique is
described in Defining accelerator
keys.

Indicating a border
style

You can select a border style using the BorderStyle property on
the General property page.