ThisForm.This doesn't really make sense. ThisForm points to the current form, so, ThisForm.This is (kind of) ThisForm, too. I don't know why it works in the first case.

Probably the best way to reference this would be: ThisForm.TabName

Vlad

>I have created a new class that is based on control. Within this class I have a textbox and a listbox. I gave the container a new property also. The listbox.rowsource references this new property: ie. list1.rowsource = thisform.this.tabname.
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>And that part works.
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>I also want the textbox's controlsource property to reference the control's new property: ie.
>text1.controlsource = thisform.this.tabname.
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>But with that it bombs out... the error I recieve is 'Unknown member THIS. Unbinding object text1'
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>Why would it work with the listbox and not the textbox?
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>I have also tried: text1.controlsource = this.tabname
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>I recieved: "Property TABNAME is not found. Unbinding object text1"
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>Thanx,
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>Michael Mead