>>Probably the best approach in this case is to add specialized >>methods to the form which would swap the state of the desired >>objects, and perform any other action necessary. So, instead of >>Thisform.command1.enabled=.f., we'd better call >>Thisform.command1driver("enable") to do that and all the other >>stuff, and use only that to enable/disable command1. > >Maybe I wasn't reading your post correctly, but I did not see >any place that you actually change the "this.value". As Erik said >you have to change the "this.value" not the "this.controlsource" to >trigger the programmatic change event. Anyways the point is moot. >I think Erik's method using timers is going to be a better way of >handling the problem, for reasons he suggested earlier in the >thread. Try that first. It is kind of complicated. Well, I assumed that if a textbox or any other control has a controlsource, its value gets changed whenever the controlsource value changes. This is ok when the controlsource is alias.field, right? I just tried to set the controlsource to AnotherControl.enabled, but it doesn't fire until _after_ refresh. Not quite consistent, eh?