The reason this doesn't work is because in:
thisobject='Dayjobsline' + alltrim(str(x))
thisobject will end up just being a text string, NOT an object. If you apply eval() to it, you should get an object.
>I have a form with a number of the same invisible objects on. I want to make them incrementally visible according to how many records are in a table - 1 object for each record...
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>This code generates a 1925 error - Unknown member "name".
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>zrecs=RECCOUNT()
>IF zrecs>0
> FOR x=1 TO zrecs
> thisobject='Dayjobsline'+ALLTRIM(STR(x))
> thisform.thisobject.visible=.t.
> NEXT
>ENDIF
>
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> I have checked the value and type of 'thisobject' by displaying it in a messagebox, and it is all correct, yet I still get the 1925 error.
>
>Please advise what I am missing here...
>
>Many thanks!!
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