>The problem for me is that I need to be able to take action if THIS objet is the last child belonging to its immediate parent. The ambiguity mentioned in (2) above makes that impossible. Because of (1) above, I cannot even implement a manually coded alternative.
>I could take some action in the parent, when it's last child is removed, but there is no event that always fires at the parent when one of its children is removed. RemoveObject doesn't fire in the second case in (2) above.
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Hi, Mark
If you are using VFP6 you might want to try Access/Assign on the parent object's ControlCount property.
I am also curious(I read Eric Moore's message) as to what you are trying to do.
Let me know how it works.

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