>>Removing the spinner makes the form behave normally. However, neither setting it ReadOnly or Disabled at design time has any effect.
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>Hmmm...well, don't know what else to suggest, other than adding it at runtime, though I haven't played with it much...
Well, if the only effect is the annoying message, I'll live with it. I find it more important that my form show properly in design mode (this IS *Visual* FoxPro) than to try weird stuff to work around it.
Thanks for the ideas.
Regards. Al
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