>Naomi end Tore
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>It didn't work
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>But I used your suggestions and succeed as below:
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>STORE "res4."+ shapex + ".backcolor" TO back_color
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>&back_color = this.BackColor

STORE this.BackColor to ("res4." + shapeX + ".backColor")

should work. Did you try it?

Is res4 an object? A reference to the first form?

what would

loShape = evaluate("res4." + shapeX) 
?loShape.BackColor

return?