Malcolm

>With my continuing list of silly questions, you must think me insane :)

Nope, I think it's great that you're doing some "out-of-the-box" thinking about what kind of things are done with VFP.

>The reason I was moving some classes from Containers to Controls was to hide some member elements that should have been invisible but were being unintentionally affected by some SetAll() and SetAllX() type behavior in one my apps.
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>I also wanted to hide some internal workings from one of my customers who has been building a growing base of unsupportable hacks "for expidiency" reasons.
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>Your solution - make my class members protected - sounds like a better solution than my convert to Control class approach. I'm embarrassed I didn't think of this solution first.

No reason to be embarrassed. The only reason I came to this solution is because I tried to use the Control class when it first came out and was very disappointed with it. On the surface, it seems like a great addition; but in reality, it ends up being more of a waste of space and effort.

>Thank you very much!

You're quite welcome,
Chad