Frank,

It works fine in VFP9 SP1 and SP2. I guess it's time to upgrade. :)

>Why does this not work?
>VFP 8 SP1
>

>CLEAR 
>oRef = CREATEOBJECT("voo")
>?oRef.Kid.TAG
>
>
>DEFINE CLASS voo AS CUSTOM
>  ADD OBJECT oChild AS CUSTOM;
>      WITH name = "Kid", TAG= "KidTAG"
>  PROCEDURE INIT
>    BINDEVENT(THIS.Kid, "TAG" , THIS , "MYTAG",3)
>  ENDPROC
>  PROCEDURE MYTAG
>    RETURN "ParentTag"
>  ENDPROC
>ENDDEFINE
>