>>How can I set the property of a button from a procedure?
>>From a menu option and in a procedure file, I want to enable
>>a button on my form. any ideas?
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>Rob,
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>I think you and Ed were getting lost in all the auto-replies. Here's what I believe what Ed was telling you.
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>1. In order for this to work, you'll first need a global variable that can be initialized from the menu. For the sake of this example, I'm calling it goForm.
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>2. In you're menu command line, assuming that the form is MyForm, you'd have:
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>DO FORM MyForm NAME goForm LINKED
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>3. Now to set a command button as enabled, assume its name is MyCmndBtn in your proccedure:
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>goForm.MyCmndBtn.Enabled = .T.
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>That should do it. Ed, isn't this what you were trying to tell Rob.

Fistly, I didn't get lost. Surely, global variable will work Ok, but you and me know that OO-way is to keep form references in application or top-level form object properties/collections.