>I create a cursor in the init phase of the form. If the init phases of my controls fire, I'm getting errors that the controlsource doesn't exist yet because the init of controls is before the init of the form. I can solve it by setting the controlsource of the control in the init fase of the form. How can I do this without this trick. I need this because I want us to be able and past controls (from the classes) on to a form without having to modify it's init phase.

in addition to what everybody else said , if you are using form classes , you can specify in the Class Info menu option NOINIT for the members you want
and then init() them manually

Arnon