If there is one, I could use it! About a year ago I wanted to do this and what I ended up doing is assigning each control with a Component ID that started
with the same letter, on form startup did a: PROPERTY b% READONLY 'TRUE' Then located a button that said "switch to edit" which would set the readonly to False. At the same time I would change the caption of the button to "switch to view" and by doing a GETPROPERTY of the caption I could tell what mode to flip back and forth on subsequent clicks of the button. If I remember right, combo boxes didn't work with "read only" and I had to separately disable or some other property. I think it was actually read-only but you could still drop down the menu and appear to pick an option, it just wouldn't save it. The disable (or whatever) took care of that. Karen In a message dated 12/2/2011 3:35:40 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > > >> It’s late and my brain isn’t functioning clearly. I thought there was >> a property command we could issue from a button (bit or otherwise) that >> would allow us to switch the current form from Browse to Edit mode. I want >> to open a form using the command “Browse using formname” so no editing >> can occur. Then by selecting a button on the form “switch” the form to >> edit mode. Am I crazy or is this possible? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Paul Buckley >> >> >> > >
