>>Try the DisabledBackColor property. - also, keep in mind that Enabled = .F. will set the fore color to the DisabledForeColor, whereas ReadOnly = .F. won't.
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>Are the ReadOnly and Enabled same thing?
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>Do I code like this (e.g.) This.field1.ReadOnly = .F.?
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>Does the DisabledBackColor work with ReadOnly?
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>(I have not tried it yet)
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>Chuck

Hi Chuck,

In our own framework we set DisabledForeColor=192,192,192
and DisabledBackColor=0,0,0 for TextBox and EditBox class. It works great and increases readability (guess, I already used this term in another thread today :))