>I have several text boxes that have readonly = .T. and/or visible = .F. when they don't apply for the current situation.
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>My users have found they can really bomb the program by mouse clicking all over the place. (several text boxes have gotfocus events, or valid events)
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>Is their a property, or another method, that I can use to prevent inactive textboxes from receiving focus?

Hi Karl,

Use the Enable property (set it to .F.) This will disable the text boxes and the evandt and procedures contained in them will not fire even if clicked on. This also rules out tabing to them.

Hope this helps