Hi Kevin,

I just tested your code and, yes it does indeed work, but, only up to a point :) Where it fails and produces an error is when you take your control and drop it onto a form. Now when you run your builder, it fails upon exiting with the error that I described below.

Mike.


>I just retested my code. Works fine.
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>I emailed you the project.
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>Kevin
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>>Hi Kevin,
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>>This almost worked. The problem that I'm having is that oObject.label1 is an "Unknown member". If I go to the debugger and investigate oObject, I can see that it has a "label1" object but its value is "(Expression could no be evaluated)".
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>>Is this something to do with the fact that I'm using a Control control and not a Container control? Any ideas?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Mike
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>>>Create a program called MyBuilder.prg and add the following code:
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>>>LPARAMETERS oObject, cButton
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>>>cCaption = INPUTBOX("Enter a caption")
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>>>oObject.label1.Caption = cCaption
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>>>RETURN
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>>>Add a property to your class called 'builder'
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>>>Set it to the full path and name of the builder prg you created.
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>>>Right click on the class and choose 'builder' from the menu.
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>>>The code above will run.
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>>I'm trying to create a custom control based on the VFP control class. At design time I dropped a label in the control along with a shape. I created a custom property for the control named Caption that has an assign method to change the label's caption. In the control's init event, I set Caption=Caption to force the assign to update the label's caption.
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>>>>This works fine at runtime. How can I update the label's caption at design time? When I drop a instance of this class on a form, the label and shape objects are not available (since it is a Control control).
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>>>>Regards,
>>>>
>>>>Mike