I read the post about how to change foreground color of disabled control. I have a similar problem in that the default colors for disabled controls are hard to read. However, I have a lot of controls to work with. I have set up my app with tab pages and depending on the security settings of the user, I set Enabled to False for specific tab pages. They are allowed to view the pages, just not change the data them. Each tab page has anywhere from 25-40 controls (very data intensive app). To have to set each control to readonly or do anything to it individually would be a royal pain. The tab page doesn't seem to have a Readonly property, so I can't go that route. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your help!

Sorry, forgot to mention this is a Windows app.

Here is how you would disable all of the controls on a single tabpage:

Dim ctrl As Control

For Each ctrl In Me.[tabpagename].Controls
      ctrl.Enabled = False
Next

J

Thanks for your reply! I've already disabled the controls on the page by disabling the tab page itself, which effectively disables the controls. My problem was with the colors for disabled controls. I suppose I could use this code to set it to readonly instead which wouldn't change the colors. I already worked around it by leaving the controls enabled and setting the focus to the tab control if you click on any control within the page that should be disabled (got this idea from a reply to that original post). It worked for most controls but not for check boxes or datetimepicker controls. I had to write some code to undo the click action and then take you to the tab page. It looks fine on the screen but it's a bit messy in the code.

MK