>>>>>>>>Hi everyone,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I have a custom Control that I need to prevent access to under certain circumstances, however the control only appears to have a GotFocus and LostFocus not a When or Valid.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Is there some way to reproduce the behaviour of the When method?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Thanks in advance
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>what about setting the controls 'enabled' property to 'FALSE'?
>>>>>>>The user will not have 'access' to the control.
>>>>>>>When the 'certain circumstance' occurs...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>THISFORM.Control.Enabled = .f.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>or
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>THISFORM.Control.ReadONly = .t. is another way to limit user access to a control.....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>i hope this helps...
>>>>>>>if it does not...
>>>>>>>... get more specific with your question..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I guess that the real problem is that I can only test if they can access the control within the control ie what should be the When method.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Any thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>>so when the user alters the contents of the control ... you would want to disable it ?
>>>>>
>>>>>try the
>>>>>'interactivechange' event of the control....
>>>>
>>>>Sorry I'm not being very clear today - I go on holiday tomorrow so.....
>>>>
>>>>What I need to happen is that the user clicks on a custom scrollbar the scrollbar then calls the necessary code to check if the current record needs to be saved, if it does the user gets a question, depending on the answer the scroll may be stopped leaving the user on the previous record.
>>>>
>>>>From the GotFocus I can't seem to stop the scroll happening!
>>>
>>>i did not know you could subclass a 'scrollbar' ?
>>>
>>>is this scroll bar ...
>>>part of a grid? or a combobox ... or what?
>>
>>No I've created a custom control with 3 buttons in it and programmed the functionality of a scroll bar (as in record next/previous/top etc).
>>
>>Part of my problem is that the user could be trying to do a number of things when they click on my scrollbar and I need to prevent all of them - hence the fact that I want to do the check in the When/GotFocus of the control before the button within performs its code.
>
>Note that we have custom scrollbars just the same, but you seem to approach something differently here; I assume the user clicks on a scrollbar button and during MouseDown scrolling is performed ? and not that another click is needed to stop scrolling ?

Thats correct - so when are you checking that its ok for the user to move from the current record?