Elgin,
Are all of your parent classes included in the project so they are included in the EXE? What happens if you set a path (in the EXE) to the folder with the parent classes?

You can follow the code with the debugger by running the EXE from the command window and putting "Set Step On" in the code. Perhaps you could set a breakpoint for the controls that should be enabled/disabled.

HTH
Barbara

>I have a "parent" form with code in the Refresh method to set the Enabled property to .F. for all Controls contained within that have an "Editable" property set to true. All the forms in my App are based on this form. This is a routine I got from AppDev. My question is this: When I run my forms in the VFP environment the routine works and all controls are disabled according to the current state of the "editing" property on the form. However when I run a compiled EXE of my App the controls are enabled and are just ignoring the Parent class methods.
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>Note: My "base" parent classes are located in a different project and directory than that of my app.
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>I don't understand why it can work in the VFP environment but not for the compiled version.
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>Thank you for your help.