>>I've got an odd situation:
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>>I have a process that takes a few seconds and I've been trying to disable all the buttons on the screen once the process starts and then enable them when it finishes. This is just to stop the user pressing on something else which would then be run afterwards.
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>>How I know that the code works

ThisForm.SetAll("Enabled", .F., "cmd")

But it doesn't work every time. It will the first time but not the second! Very odd.
>>I've tried refreshing the form, disabling all the buttons explicitly, giving them focus then disabling them. But no joy.
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>>Anyone any suggestions?
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>Caroline, try
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>ThisForm.SetAll("Enabled", .F., "cmd")
>THISFORM.DRAW()
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Nick,
I've not come across the Draw method before, I will check it out.
Many thanks.