>Barb,
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>Someone was saying they could hand edit the .scx and put their own classes in there for Header, Page etc. in fact might have been a FPA article, but I've never had enough trust for the long term reliability of that to even try it.

I thought it's stable like house of cards, but it seems to endure all the things I tried to torture it. Still, it doesn't allow any of my classes to be used for AddColumn - it's always the default and only the default.

>For the couple of places I use custom classes I just replace one for the other at Init time, copying the visual aspects that were set in the designer.

I've taken your advice regarding this, agreed it's just an elegant workaround, and used it ever since. And it's quick enough, so I won't complain. Though, I'd really love to have the name of default classes for members (headers, columns, pages, buttons) of container classes available as a property at design time.