>In the same vein, in the properties sheet, with same level of complications. Judging the indentation of a control in the cbo does not give an indication of the real depth (so after page down few times we see a change in indentation), is there any way to judge if the change in indentation for a control, the control is a sibling of the control 3 pageup back?

You just gave me the idea to write this little builder:

ASELOBJ(a)
oObj=a[1]
cPath=oObj.name
DO WHILE TYPE("oObj.parent.name")="C"
	oObj=oObj.parent
	cPath=oObj.name+"."+cPath
ENDDO
RETURN cPath

Select your object, and call this as a function from command window. It returns a simulated sys(1272) for the selected object. It will break if nothing is selected.