You are correct in your assessment that you cannot change the visibility of an inherited property from PUBLIC to HIDDEN within PEM Editor.

>HI,
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>I try with both VFP's Property window and PemEditor to change the scope of an inherited property from PUBLIC to HIDDEN, both will prompt me to save the change, but when I open again the class, the property is back to PUBLIC again???
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>Must I always do the above programmatically (I mean with the define class command)?