>Hello George,
>an honest man ( t'will get you nowhere ), apologies for the brutal honesty but I've been drinking with my equivalent of "The Dark Beer Club", BTW did you see my posting ( today ) on a security/permissions class, I have a system ( legacy )at the moment which uses a table to enable/disable controls on a form depending on user class permissions, basically you add all the object names of your form controls into a table which is of the structure: user_class,object_name,read_only,enabled etc etc..., and call a custom form method from the Init of every form which sets the relevant properties of the object ( crude but it works ), I just can't help thinking there is a better way using a class
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Hi Pete,

Hope you're enjoying yourself< g >.

First of all, I should say that in what I do I'm not faced with this sort of problem (or at least am not often faced with it). So I'm not the best one to ask about this. Most typically this situation is handled by some sort of numeric access code (stored in a table) that's stored at the application level. Individual controls take care of enabling/disabling or being visible/invisible in their individual refresh methods. If I recall correctly this sort of scenario is handled in the Taz Traders sample.

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>BTW In my family of three ( Me,Lynne and Herb the Cat ) you are now known as "Croydon George"

And I've never been there< g >.