Hi and thanks...it worked very well for my situation...the only thing that could have made it better was to be able to change the control sources of all the objects...there were 75 in all.....I browsed the VCX but really felt uncomfortable trying to figure out much more...anyway it work great!.

Tom

>>I have a container with a number of textboxes in it....I created another
>>container and copied all of the textboxes to the new one...is there an easy way
>>of changing the textbox base class without having to start all over.
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>First, MAKE A COPY!!! Then:
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USE myClass.vcx
>REPLACE class WITH 'mytxtclass' FOR class = 'textbox' AND parent = 'myContainer'
>REPLACE classloc WITH 'myclasslib.vcx' FOR class = 'mytxtclass'
>USE