>hi fred,
>
>i had tried this, but it doesnt work. it still has the scroll bars de-activated. actually, we are using genscrnx to generate screens, do you think this is where the problem could be. if so how do i get around it ?


My mistake. You can put a ".T. NOMODIFY" in the When clause to make it "read-only". This should work much better.

GENSCRNX has nothing to do with it. I just had to try it out and boy, am I glad I do everything in VFP now!