Actually, Erik, I am not so sure that it is a bug. If it is I'd like to know.

From the documentation a hidden property is hidden from all objects but
the class itself. A protected property can be seen by subclasses but not
other classes. In all cases, however, in the case of an object based on your class (say through CREATEOBJECT(), or Form Designer), if you make the
property hidden or protected when you design your class, you will not be
able to do anything with it in the object based on your class.

It's in the doc. I personally cannot see the point of it since
you cannot "run a class", you always have to create an object based
on it ....

Michel.

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>Up until now I have not made it a practice to to make custom properties of my classes either hidden or protected. Never had a need to, and I don't really yet, but a couple of my classes are getting really heavy with properties and methods in the property sheet, and I am finding that most of these props and methods are only for internal use.
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>So I went to the class definition and set a few of them to hidden. now when I run them, it crashes with "property 'myproperty' is not found.
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>I meant hidden from subclasses and instances, not from itself! The code that crashes is in the same class definition that defines the hidden properties.
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>Come to think of it, I think I tried this long ago with the same results and decided it wasn't worth the trouble. What am I missing here?