>I have a bunch of checkboxes. The checkboxes are disabled, until user click on 'UPDATE' button. When the checkboxes are disabled (.ENABLED=.F.), the caption is grayed out / shadowed. Changing the .DISABLEDFORECOLOR to black makes it worst: it becomes dotted. I'd like the check box to be grayed out when disabled, but would like to keep the caption to be black for easy reading. Is there a way to do this without using a separate label control for the caption? (same thing happens with option buttons).
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>Thanks all!

Do not use the caption at all and place a label next to the checkbox.
You can add code to the label click to toggle the checkbox value.

But remember that this way, your users will have no clues of the state of the control...