>But why? My original code that I posted was working fine. I am stepping through the objects... he posted a suggested change.
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>>>Thanks for the idea Fabio, but I cannot implement that because not all controls are directly properties of the form itself but may reside on a page on a pageframe, etc.
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>>So what - recurse.

Maybe if you throw ThisForm.LockScreen = .T., ThisForm.LockScreen = .F. around the code. If it's just a question of the screen not updating properly sometimes, then maybe that will help.

Alan