Hi Peter ---

So the enable/disable is based on the state of the Form (captured by the Mode property)? IF so, I would think you'd want to test THISFORM.Mode within the Refresh method of the Form's controls so that they can change their "states" as desired. Also consider using customized control classes to put that code in ther class's refresh and not in each individual controls refresh.

A good discussion on this can be found in John Petersen and Rod Paddocks book "Visual FoxPro 5 Enterprise Development"


>Being a relative newcomer to VFP when I wrote my first app, I still coded my enable/disable, RO/RW code for my form controls in the Init of my form, I am now a little more OOP aware and would like to move it to the relevant classes, e.g. in the init of the control
>
>if this.parent.mode = 'VIEW'
> this.readonly = .t.
>endif
>
>etc..., can anyone give me some direction on this.
>Regards
>Pete Kane