Disable a Button Column on click

I have been playing around with this and can't seem to come up with the proper way to disable 2 columns of buttons once a user clicks on one of them. I want to prevent them from clicking a secnd button while they are editing the current data.  I have a number of bound data columns of data. I then have 2 columns of buttons one to edit the data and the second to delete the row of data. I have been playing around with using a straight button column and a button in a template column. Both ways seem tohave its benefits but the staight button column seems to give me the best methods to itendify the column by index & data (but I'm always open to listening to other ways). But first things first; When the page loads I display a grid of data that where the user can not edit/modify any of the entries. They will have to click a button in the row to selelct that row for editing. When they click on an Edit button in one of the rows I want to prevent (disable) all of the Edit and ...