>>If I have a form in which most of the controls are bound to form properties, and I want to conditionally change the value of one property based on the user changing another should I change the control's value or the form property?
>>
>>eg. Say I have a check box, chk1 bound to thisform.lChk, and a textbox, txt1 bound to thisform.cText
>>If the user types anything into txt1 I want to set the check box on. So... do I say
>>thisform.lChk = .T.
>>or
>>thisform.chk1.value = .T.
>>????
>>
>>And for a bonus, why?
>>TIA
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>Changing the value that a control is bound to does not change the value of a control until you refresh the control. So if you wanted to set the value and show the change in one step, you should change the value of the control, which will update the form property automatically.

Thanks Eric. I suspected that was the way.