>>In my textbox class I'd like to implement my own readonly property. I have many occasions where some textboxes should be readonly on a form and others
>>not readonly at the same time. Rather than individually controlling this
>>in the form init I though I would implement a new property something like
>>"_readonly". That way when I do a thisform.setall("readonly",llreadwrite,"MyTextBoxClass") only those textboxes with _readonly set to .t. would actually set readonly to .t.. So is there a way that I can intercept the property change to "readonly" and check the value of "_readonly" before it actually sets "readonly"? Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. If anyone has a better method please advise.
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>I believe you can use an assign property for this. VFP 6 or later.
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>HTH, Hilmar.

Wow! Worked perfect! "Assign method" is what you meant I assume.