>Maybe you can describe a well defined case where it is usefull and can't be accomplished in another easy way. Maybe you can convince me i'm wrong...

PMFJI, I have an example, don't know if it's good or bad but here goes.

I created a ShadowText class, It's a container that holds 2 label objects. The label's are on top of each other, one is black and one is grey (it makes a text label with a drop shadow).

The container has a .Caption property that controls the caption of each label. This property has a .Caption_assign method.

LPARAMETERS vNewVal
WITH THIS
	.Caption = m.vNewVal
	.stText.CAPTION = m.vNewVal
	.stShadow.CAPTION = m.vNewVal
	.refresh
ENDWITH

In order to change the text I just set the .Caption property and the labels captions are changed.

It's nice and encapsulated, I don't have to know anything about the inner workings, just that I set the .Caption prop just like any other label.