>>return not thisform.BoxesDisabled
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>>in the boxes' When event method. Of course, I have assumed you set this property to .t. when you want to forbid changing the checkboxes' state, and .f. when you want to allow it.
>Response from 'left field': I also wanted to show such a field -- drew a sunken container and placed a WingDing font chr(252) inside the box. Looks a little different from the VFP check ( I think it looks better ), it is sizable, and totally, completely unable to be changed by the user.

Why not - but in this case I think Edrissa needed a way to enable/disable some checkboxes, so "unable to be changed by the user" is probably not what we need this time.