Hi Chad,

>>>I would like to be able to save the value a user entered on a form without saving the information to a table and then reading that information evertime the user opens the form.

I am curious why you don't want to save the information to a table. The simple fact is that any information (data) that persists between sessions has to be saved to a file on disk somewhere and that is all a table is. You could save it to the Registry, but that is really just another data repository (like a table)

>>>. I would be modifiying the design time value of the check box control at run time.

In which case you would be saving it to a VFP table (the SCX) and reading the information from that table every time the user opens the form. Even if you exclude the form from the compiled application, you still cannot modify it while the form is displayed because VFP uses it exclusively. But I am still confused as to why you want to.

pamela