Hello All! I'm a newbie BeOS programmer (well, actually, OBOS programmer now!), and I'm also fairly new to programming in C++. As a "starter" project for learning BeOS programming, I've decided to create a Polish notation calculator. Part of this calculator consists of four "banks," which hold values to be manipulated by the calculator. The bottom bank, "W," should be editable, so that the user can enter values (like a normal calculator). The remainder of the banks may not be edited by the user. I've decided to implement the bank displays with BTextControls. In Windows (sorry I'm being obscene on the list, hehehe), I'd like to give the text controls the ES_READONLY flag. This is how I've tried to do it in my code, using BTextView :: MakeEditable(): // START OF CODE BTextControl *bank_display[4]; // (A field within the parent window's class). // Excerpts from the parent window's class constructor ... // labels for the bank displays. const char bank_lbl[4][3] = {"Z:", "Y:", "X:", "W:"}; // Location of next bank display control and reset button. BRect bank_rect(5, 28, 155, 20), button_rect(160, 25, 220, 20); // ... for(int i = 0; i < 4; i++) { // Build a bank display TextControl and initialize it. bank_display[i] = new BTextControl( bank_rect, NULL, bank_lbl[i], "Hello!", new BMessage(-1), B_FOLLOW_LEFT | B_FOLLOW_TOP, B_WILL_DRAW | B_NAVIGABLE); bank_display[i]->SetDivider(20); bank_display[i]->SetAlignment(B_ALIGN_LEFT, B_ALIGN_RIGHT); if(i != 3) bank_display[i]->TextView()->MakeEditable(false); // Increment the top and bottom members of bank_rect to set the // values up for the next control. bank_rect.top += 25; bank_rect.bottom += 25; } (Sorry if the formatting is messed up ... I have a bad problem with my code getting scrambled somewhere between my computer and your computer.) Unfortunately, when running the application, all text controls are still editable, and the call to MakeEditable() does not appear to have any affect. However, the calls to SetDivider() and SetAlignment() appear to work as advertised. This is either due to my lack of knowledge concerning the BeOS API, my lack of knowledge concerning C++, or a hideous combination of the two. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Travis Beaty Evans, Colorado.