I think so too, Vlad, but the order and heirarchy of what will call what is interesting...and ultimately useful.

>I think that this behavior is like that in order to avoid infinite recursion of Assign and Access calling each other.
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>Vlad
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>>Yes.....switched all THISFORMs to THISs and the behavior remained the same.
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>>>Is this the same if you use THIS instead of THISFORM?
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>>>Vlad
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>>>>When you have both Access and Assign methods defined for a property, Assign will be fired off from Access, but Access will not be fired from Assign.
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>>>>So, if you place the command "cCaption=THISFORM.Caption" in the Assign method, Access never fires although it would fire if the code were placed anywhere else in the Form.
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>>>>However, if you place "THISFORM.Caption='Hi There'" In the Access method, the Assign event does fire.