>I want to find a way to change value of a property on a bunch of controls on a form from the INIT method of the form. This way, when each control's INIT fires, the value of the property is already set. But when ran a little test I see that the INIT of controls fires first and then the INIT of the form. Any suggestions? TIA.

Init of the forms' controls fires before the Init of the form (from the inner most to the top most container). The only way to fire Init of the control after the Init of the form would be by adding this control in run-time in form's Init.

In order to set some property of many objects you can use SetAll method of the form.