Hi Malcolm :)

>Thank you for our ideas and code. I came up with a similar solution using a function called, amazingingly enough, SetProp! (brilliant minds think alike!).

Really? SetProp? hehe...

>For those following this thread, I don't use Herman's SETALL() line because I want to redirect specific parent properties to specific child object properties.
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>The function technique works ok, but I'm still looking for a transparent way to do the same thing via regular assignment statements.
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>Instead of:
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>SetProp( This, "fontname", "arial" )
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>I would like to do:
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>This.FontName = "Arial"
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>... and have a This_Assign and/or BindEvent() lookup the property being assigned and determine which (if any) child object property should be updated.
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>Hope this makes sense to someone besides me :)

I had thought about that, however I couldn't find more idea (yet) or maybe I wasn't trying hard enough <g>. Meanwhile, I hope someone can come up with more idea :-)

Regards