>Also, if you and now others start to use it, it will have to stick for subsequent releases. I'm sure there is more than one thing in VFP which has that origin.

I wouldn't count on it, Jim. In VFP 3.0, you could add a refresh method to controls that did not have one (labels) and it would fire when you issued a form.refresh(). Many people found this behavior very useful and used it left and right. But on discovery of this "bug", this behavior was removed in VFP 5.