Gary,

>>If the conditional disabling works on the tool bar(s), then there is absolutely no reason why the same logic will not work on the buttons placed on the form (I assume you are using the tool button subclasses from cmTools.vcx).<<

I needed to Set the button's lRefreshInForm property to .T. By default, this is .F. for some buttons, because they usually only need to be refreshed when the form is refreshing anyway, so subscribing to a state manaeger refresh event would result in a double refresh. But in
my case, I would need to set these to .T., so they will refresh in
cases where the full form doesnt't, like right after I make the first change. (This info came from Dave).

Mel Cummings