Hi George ( and the others :-) ),

Thanks to all for the responses. Yes, I have thought about using the bit functions and may wind up doing this. I was thinking in terms of something a bit more generic. I will be implementing this ( this time ) most likely in C# ( not VFP ... horrors :-) ). At this point I haven't looked but assume the equivalent bit functions are available in C#. However, I was thinking it might be advantageous to implement this in a generic ( non-language specific ) fashion.

At any rate, at this point, I will look at this using the bit functions to get the functionality and go from there.

Again thanks for all the input and any other thoughts on this are welcome.

Bill

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>The underlying code is undoubtedly using bit-wise functions to determine the icon, button style, etc. If you know the incoming values, you simply need to use BITAND() to determine what's been specified. If a given flag returns zero or the same value that it's set at, you know that it wasn't or was specified, in that order.