>I have cause to reopen my VB knowledge, and in doing so, I am dealing with some forms ( obviously ). In VFP, I regularly set the LockScreen attribute of the form when hiding on screen activity from the user. What is the VB equivalent -- many of the attributes in the property sheet in VB are intuitively obvious to the most casual VFP programmer, but I don't see what to set to make the same kind of a change to the form.

Hi Robin,

I don't believe that there's a direct property you can manipulate like VFP's. My VB, however, is pretty rusty, so maybe someone else knows of a way to do this other than what I'm about to mention.

VB forms have an hWnd property. To simulate the LockScreen property. Declare the API function LockWindowUpdate() (it's in USER32.DLL) and pass it the form's hwnd property. To "unlock" it, call the same function with 0 as the parameter.