Thanks, I now understand what I did wrong thanks to you and my friends at the UT


peter

>>I thought AddObject is for vfp controls, newobj for my own so I can define a source for the objct
>>Otehr than tat they do the same thing, I thought
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>>I just asked a simlar question where i addobject lines to an array property and they son't show either
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>There's a substantial difference in how you instantiate an object. If you want it to be visible, it must be a form or belong to a form (not necessarily directly to a form, but still; also, _screen is a form). If you call a createobject() or newobject() functions, you'll get invisible objects. You may assign references to these invisible objects to properties of a form (or any object on it), it still won't make them visible, and they won't have a parent (i.e. .parent=null).
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>The only way to have a visible object is to either have it on a form at design time, or to use .addobject() or .newobject() methods of a visible (*) object, which will then be the parent of this object.
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>(*) I guess the word I would rather have used would be "visiblable" - one that can be made visible.