>>When I open a particular form, the built in VFP activity refreshes all my controls. This is normally a good thing … but in this case I have controls that during their refresh, call the refresh event of other controls to complete a cascading start up logic of my own (that includes some data manipulation). What I’m looking for is the equivalent of a data session’s NoDataOnLoad so that I can set what is effectively a “NoRefreshOnOpen” for the form.
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>>If this isn’t possible, I’m willing to set a global glBlockRefresh = .t. before calling my form, and put:
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if glBlockRefresh
>>  return
>>endif

>>at the top of each refresh(). I would have tried it already, but I don’t know how to determine that control has returned to me so that I can then set glBlockRefresh to .f. and then programatically call appropriate refreshes to get things going. That is, where would I put glBlockRefresh = .f. I’m assuming that it’s at the top of the form’s Init, but I’m not sure.
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>>Any ideas on a NoRefreshOnOpen (or equivalent)?
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>>Bob
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>Check form BindControls property in HELP.

BindControls wasn’t appropriate in my case, as it blocks binding controls to ALL data sources. In some of my combo boxes I create a SQL query (that doesn’t get run with BindControls = .f.) then generates an error when the control references a field in the missing query result.

It was the key though to understanding my problem better. I now realize that I need something more selective so I’m opting for the glBlockRefresh approach in SOME of my controls.

I’m experimenting now with turning it off by putting glBlockRefresh = .f. in the Form’s Activate, or Init events, or in the KeyPress and MouseDown events.

Bob