>>When user tries to change a value of a textbox (or another control) that is set to be ReadOnly = .T., message "The Control is read-only" pops up. Is it possible and how to make the control display a "custom" message?
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>>Thank you.
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>Maybe you could just SET NOTIFY OFF and change TextBox.StatusBarText to what you want.
Thank you very much for your help.
Setting SET NOTIFY OFF does remove the standard "The Control is read-only" message. So this is good. But adding a test to .StatusBarText does nothing.
What am I missing?
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