Actually what you should do have a form property which can be flipped from false (view only) to true (edit mode) and put that into your when clause of your base classes. The edit button flips the switch and all controls are enabled.


Peter

>Mike, thanks for your reply.. sounds just like what I want.
>
>Regards,
>
>Gerard
>
>
>
>>>Is there a similar command in VFP to the FPW Show Gets Enable ?
>>>(I want to enable all objects on a form)
>>
>>You can do a thisform.SetAll('Enabled', .T.)