Hi Barbara,

That's a good idea. I'll have to add it. Thanks.

>Personally, I prefer EOR, but I give my clients their choice. One way of handling the problem of dynamically bound controls changing during INIT is to have an 'initialized' form property. Defaults to .F., gets changed to .T. at the end of INIT() or Activate() or whatever is appropriate for your scenario.
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>I've used this successfully when I have to initialize combos depending on a variable passed in through INIT(). I make the combo's init dependant on the Initialized variable and then re-call the INITs when all the information is present.
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>As for how to bind the controls, it's a simple method call that is put into each of the base classes for bound controls. Sets a form edit/add/readonly flag and refreshes the buttons accordingly. We have buttons that can be dropped on the form for Add/Save/Cancel etc. that reflect this.
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