>>>>>Can I make all of my fields on a FORM READ ONLY using
>>>>>SETALL with program code?
>>>>
>>>>what happened when you tried it?
>>>
>>>I should have said .. how do you SETALL using a SHAPE instead of a
>>>CONTAINER? I have a group of fields and I use a SPAPE to group them.
>>>Should I also have used a CONTAINER in make it visible=.f.?
>>>
>>>thanks
>>
>>You are using a SHAPE object to *visually* group a set of fields, they are actually direct members of the form, as is the SHAPE object. Look in your Properties window to verify this.
>>
>>So, you can use THISFORM.SetAll().
>>
>>-Doug-
>
>Hi Doug and thanks for the information..rob

I also found that it helped to create a subclass (for my purposes, of a textbox) to programatically 'group' the fields together.