>I have a form that displays data using textbox, combobox, option button and checkbox. I want the controls to be locked until the user selected the "Edit" option from a toolbar. The combobox and textbox have the Locked property so the user can not change the value of the controls. However, for a optionbutton and checkbox the only property avaiable to lock a control in the Enabled property (as far as I can tell) and it is grays out the control, which is not pleasing to the eye.
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>If there another approach I can take to locking down the optionbutton and checkbox without setting enabled to false?
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>Thanks

You could put code on the gotfocus event of these controls and depending on the edit mode of the form display a message and set focus to something else.