The best thing for you to do is to look in the DevGuide.doc. There is a pretty good description of how to use it under Security (I think). Just do a search on lReadOnly in the DevGuide.

Essentially, each control has an lReadOnly flag, if it is .T., the When event of the control will return .F.. There is also an lReadOnlyIgnore flag that indicates whether or not this control should ignore the lReadOnly setting. This is so that you can allow buttons to be clicked to show more data that might be read only, etc.

There is also an lReadOnly flag on the form, and all controls on the form will inherit this value for their lReadOnly property.

That's the quick version, read the DevGuide for a more detailed description.

HTH

>Can someone tell me how the lReadOnly and lReadOnlyIgnore work?
>
>The only info I found on it was in the properties sheet of a textbox that said that they work together with the when event, but that's not enough for me to make sense out of it.
>
>Thanks
>
>Greg