>Hi all,
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>I've created a property for my subclassed label thats called 'boundto'. This property shall reference to a textbox. However I don't know how to insert an object-reference into this property at designtime. Is this possible at all or do I have to continue with using macro-substitution?
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>Thanks in advance

I think you would get into trouble if you use "boundto" as a property name. Although labels don't have a boundto property I think (might not be - not tested) using "boundto" (or any default name of VFP) as name will fool VFP. Instead first change it to something else ie:myBoundTo.
Setting the obj ref at design time directly would be problematic. Instead just write textbox's ref hierarchy as if you would write in code window. ie: write thisform.myTxt directly in PEM sheet. In class, label's init method add the line :

this.myBoundTo = eval(this.myBoundTo)

So label.myBoundTo holds obj ref now and you can use it freely. ie:

thisform.myTxt.value = "Hello"
thisform.myLabel.myBoundTo.value = "There" && thisform.myTxt.value

PS: Do not forget to set myBoundTo to .NULL. before form.release or form won't release because of hanging obj var references. You may do it in your "close" button :
thisform.setall("myBoundTo",.NULL.,"myLabel").
Cetin