>>What does it mean when a developer has put this in the property of form instead of just quotes?
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>>=''
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>Expression in a property line preceded by an equal sign is eval()uated during the instantiation of the control (i.e. before its .init()) and is not refreshed later. So it's a once-in-a-lifetime, actually congenital, way to have a sort of dynamic property without really writing any code.
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>The bad part of it is that under some circumstances this expression may be calculated during development. If you have a
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>=TranslateToMongolian("This is a caption")
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>for a caption, and the routine TranslateToMongolian() is available but the mongolian.dbf isn't open, the routine will probably crash (though you can ignore the error - but having to ignore it every time you open the class for editing will become tedious).

Hi,

on VFP 7 or 8 the team remove UDF evaluation on class's property.
Also property_Access is not evaluated.
Only VFP native functions work.