>Can I turn all textboxes and checkboxes of my form readonly without have to specify one by one ?
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>I need to creat a button to change they to edit and not edit mode

You can bindevent() all controls' .refresh() event to some form method, where you'd use aevents() to find the caller object, and then from it set the control's .readonly to .t. or .f. - though, not all controls, only those that have the .readonly property, and, of course, skip your navigation buttons, the edit/view button and whatever else you find that needs to be skipped. You'd need to recurse through the whole form, in case you have nested controls like grids, pageframes, containers.

That's, IMO, far easier than going down the list of all controls or all classes that you may have, and will keep working even if you add more controls later. Also, setall() doesn't recurse, so you'd have to reissue the whole set of setall() calls for each composite object.