>>>>I have a form and a container with bunch of textboxes and labels.
>>>>The textboxes of the container have ControlSource set to alias.fields.
>>>>I dropped the container on the form.
>>>>Then I was changing the value of the ControlSource of some of the textboxes in the container. But the form was still "looking" at the ControlSource set initially. That is, I thought that the form should use the latest change of the ControlSource textboxes but it does not work that way.
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>>>Where are you making the change, on the form or in the textbox class? If the latter, that's normal. If it's on the form, something else is going on.
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>>>Tamar
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>>I was making the change in the textbox on the container. I don't understand why you are saying that this is normal. I thought the form would inherit all the properties of the container and therefore the properties of the textboxes of the container. But since you are saying it is normal, and I have no doubt that you know this better than I, I will just have to accept it as fact.
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>If you're making it in the container class, the change should carry through unless you've overridden it on the form. (Right-click and reset to default)
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>I don't know why you're seeing that behavior unless there's another level of subclassing involved that you haven't mentioned.
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So I guess my understanding of how things should work were right. But something was not working. And I have not changed anything on the form (like right-click and reset to default). And this is a very simple form. But as I said in the other message, by instantiating the container in the INIT method of the form (that is, adding it on-the-fly), I don't have the problem.