I suppose. To me, using vars that traverse objects or even methods in the same object is just plain suboptimal architecture in VFP. Hence, I responded suggesting she move to form properties.
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>I would guess that if you had declared a public variable that the control source's variable would hide the public variable being private by default. But without testing it, there's no way to tell.
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