>Marc,
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>If you are using VFP6 maybe ActiveControl accessor methods could be used? I'd "register" the .Name instead of a real object reference to help stay away from dangling references.
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>>But then, I think that one should use the form and that each control that gets focus should register itself somehow.

Hi David,

You mean _screen.activeform.activecontrol.name.accessor(), that is triggered each time vfp changes the vale of the name of the activecontrol?

Right! But VFP6 has not landed on my PC yet :(. But you're right, that would be nice, because having controls registering themselves in the form would mean that I have to code that in each base class, and containers (grids, pageframes etc...) would definitely pose problems I do not even want to look into at this stage.

Thanks.

Marc