>Rick, there are a few warnings about Assign and Access methods on VFP's documentation. In one of them: Visual FoxPro does not support the Assign method for the Value property for controls [...].

What does that mean? The attached image was taken from a derived class that uses textbox as its base class.

The full text:
"You can create Access and Assign methods for most native Visual FoxPro properties. You can create Assign methods for properties that are read-only; however, the method never executes. Visual FoxPro does not support the Assign method for the Value property for controls nor does it support Access and Assign methods for native properties, events, or methods of ActiveX controls. However, Visual FoxPro supports Access and Assign methods for properties, events, and methods of the Visual FoxPro OLE Container in which an ActiveX control is contained."

I have used value_assign for as long as I can remember in VFP, on textbox controls to my recall.