Hi Harry,

>I don't want to hear this but I guess that after you've already planted a few hundred textboxes around the place (all based on the vfp baseclass) its too late to go change the parent classes? (or is my fairy godmother watching and you can do this using the field mapping you speak of?

Parden Me, but its not too late. This code will do the trick (but you'll have to run it for every form)

use myform1.scx
replace class with 'mytextboxclass' for upper(class) = 'TEXTBOX', classloc with 'classes\mycontrols.vcx'

That will hack your forms and change the parent class. You will probably want to do this for all types of controls (grid, combos, checkboxes, forms, button, everything!)