John,

Thanks, that does the trick. I wasn't aware of the SET NOTIFY command.

Jonathan


>Hi Jonathan --
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>Yes...several things working together will get this done. First, STATUS BAR, NOTIFY, and TALK have to be off. Then you can use WAIT WINDOW "message here" NOWAIT in the KeyPress event of the ReadOnly control.
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>>Is there any way to control the message displayed when an object is read-only and the user tries to change it? The default text ("The control is read-only.") doesn't cut it.
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>>Thanks,
>>Jonathan