>>The problem is whatever I return from mycolor() throws an error when I try to >>instantiate the text box.
>What exactly error message you received? Is 'mycolor' system procedure or >custom method?

It returns "Invalid data type for property"

Mycolor is a custom method of my object (Which I call verifybox)

I've tried returning "0,0,255" and rgb(0,0,255)

Thanks Ed!