>Are you talking about a protected property or about a feature available in another language, like C++?

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>Or public. It still doesn't do the same though. A static member of a class is only visible to members of the class or subclasses. Statics are much preferable because of the protection from corruption by nonmembers of the class.

Other languages, VFP has no statics -- wish it did. As you know, protected properties are not shared between instances of classes.