I wish I were back in Mesa, also, I love the place.
I use "store" only in two cases, this is one of them The other is for setting the same value to a lot of variables, Store 0 to m.aa, m.ab, m.ac, m.ad.

>Thanks Tore, shows xBase is not ead :-)
> I wish i were back in mesa, AZ where it's still warm !
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>>*thisform.&x1..width=10
>>store 10 to ('thisform.' + x1 + '.width')

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>>>this works:
>>>

	x1="oLine"+TRANSFORM(m.i)
>>>	*thisform.aScale[m.I].AddObject("Line")  &&&	= CREATEOBJECT("Line")
>>>	thisform.AddObject(x1,"line")
>>>	thisform.&x1..width=10
>>>

>>>
>>>can that be done without macro substitution?