Karen,
If found it. You can set the property on the table to read only and switch it back & forth (PROPERTY TABLE tablename 'READONLY FALSE'). Very cool. Paul From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 4:43 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Switch a Form from Browse to Edit Mode in a Button 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
