Brian,

>the controls will need to react to edits, saves , cancels and adds of data to bound controls. ie when the data on the form is being edited or added some controls will need to be disabled. If a save or cancel is done the controls would need to be enabled again.
>I would also like to extend this to the mm data action buttons, when a record is edited the new button would be disabled and the save and cancel would be enabled and so on.

This is actually something I've given a lot of thought to and plan to implement in MM .NET. It's a little tricky because different user interface controls have different events that indicate a value has changed. Billy Hollis (a well-known VB guru) has written an extender-provider component that is similar to what I had envisioned for MM .NET. If you want to get your hands on it, you can download it from this link:

http://dotnetmasters.com/samples.htm

Best Regards,