>Surprisingly it does. I use the 'controls.vcx' for all input fields. I guess that at the point I am trying to use it here it is not insubstiantiated. I am somewhat new to this, what do I need to do? Create the object?

Now I don't know. If class is OK, addobject should work, doesn't matter is it base or library class. I would start debugging from simple form using command window to add objects from the class.