Hi all,

A little philosophical wandering here. I understand the concept of hidden and protected props-methods as far as they are implemented in VFP, but there are a couple things that bother me about it, and I'm looking for a little insight from others.

1) If a property is protected, I STILL think I, as the designer, should be able to set it at the instance level IN THE DESIGN ENVIRONMENT. That is, I want to be able to set the property up to some different default for each instance, but still want it to be 'protected' i.e. other objects can't change it. What am I missing here?

2) Again, with protected, I belive that other objects created at the same class level should be able to access protected properties of an object. For example, if I have a form class - and create some protected property on that class, WHY can't buttons, etc. ALSO added to that class access the property? In my mind - buttons, etc added to a form (or other container class) ought to count as part of that container class as far as protected goes.

TIA,
Ken