I was setting it in the property sheet. I will set it in code instead.
Thanks for the replies.

>>I have a method that I'm adding to my base classes to check security levels.
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>>I have an include file that defines:
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>>#DEFINE CMD_ADD 1
>>#DEFINE CMD_EDIT 2
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>>Now I drop an instance of the commandbutton on a form and set the property nRights TO CMD_ADD. the property gets passed as a string value to the class "CMD_ADD" instead of 1.
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>>Is there a way to do this?
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>Does the code look something like this?
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>THISFORM.cmdButtton.nRights = CMD_ADD