disabled controls and events

Hi all,

Is there a way to have controls such as combobox, textbox and buttons
respond to events while they are disabled?

I know that in textbox contorl there is a readonly option which isnot
available in other controls.

This is exactly what I am trying to do:

All the fields are populated from a DB.
All the fields are disabled (readonly mode)
if the user clicks on any of the controls, the user will prompted if
he/she wants to update the record. if yes then enable all controls.

Is this scenario possible?

Your help is appreciated
Ahmed