you can always set the disabledback/forecolor properties in your base class...

>>>
>>> What do you mean saying 'looking disabled'? You can always customize
>>> DisabledBack/ForeColor properties to get necessary look. BTW, When and
>>> Valid property are legacy ones and not recommended to use.
>>
>>Yes you can adjust those properties, but my preference is not to. This
>>allows me to have a global colour change control, or to set the colours
>>in a class library, and not worry about this one (or 10 or 100) instance
>>of the control.
>>
>>Yes, When and Valid are legacy. But, IMHO, they are the most suitable
>>in this case. All of the applications that you bring from FP26 to VFP
>>should be rewritten, and this will likely hold true for VFP5 to the next
>>couple of versions, so I don't place much weight in the argument that
>>these are legacy.
>>
>>/Paul
>
>Moving from 2.6 to VFP you can never meet Grid with CheckBox with When snippet, so what the necessity to hold things down adding a snippet which be a pain for next upgrades. BTW, you can get into more troubles with existing grid if a client will request flexible functionality (not always Read-Only checkbox) and will add more code to When event again.