Chaning the state of a CommandBar Control

Hello have been trying to write some code to disable a menu option in the command bar. I followed the documentation and used the "DesignerControls" controls collection off the command bars control to find a control and change its enabled property. This did nothing.

Eventually i found the "Update" event, in the online help it says "Occurs when a command bar control has been updated." (and not much else)  which more than implies it is fired *after" a control has been updated. However one of the tutorials implies that if i want to disable a menu option the only place i can do it is in the "Update" event.

So my questions are....
1) Is there are way to select a control from the command bars and disable it outside of the Update event ?

2) Is the only way to change the state of a command bar control  in the Update event ?

3) What is the trigger for the Update event to fire for a particular control ? The online help says of the "control" param "The command bar control which has been updated." so what do i need to do to inorder for a control to be considered Updated ?

thanks for any help.
aaron

Thanks for that. I looked at the other posts and discovered what i was missing. I did not realise i needed to call FindControl with the recursive param set. As i was calling it on the control itself and not on a command bar i did not think it was necessary.

Is there a way to disable the update event ? I tried setting the UpdatePeriod property on the commandBarsOptions object to zero but that just made it run as fast as it could.

I realise i could  just not implement an event handler but if i do that will the control still be fireing the event ?

thanks