>>>>>>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.

thanks Dorris... that is a good idea... I will try it..thanks again..rob