>>>Since there is no selection in the preferences menu for making items such as Combo Bodes, Spinners and Option Groups read only, is there a line of code I can write in a particular property that will make them so? I'd rather they couldn't edit the data in those fields unless they click the edit button.
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>>Combo.Enabled=.F.
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>Alternatively, Shawn, if you don't want the 'grayed out' look of Enabled = .f., you can set a form property that is TRUE for readonly = TRUE, FALSE otherwise. In the WHEN method of your combo, option group, etc. put a line
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>IF thisform.ReadOnlyProp = .T.
>   return .F.
>ELSE
>   return .T.
>ENDIF
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>This keeps the control(s) from getting focus at all, but they still LOOK as if they were 'live', matching the other controls you changed with SetAll()
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>You'll find this form property is useful in many other ways, such as button captions.
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>HTH
>Barbara
I will use that idea. Since there was no selection for read-only in the field properties, that one should work best for me. Thanks for the clean and easy advice from a rather green Foxpro programmer. |-)