>I guess what I'm trying to figure out why the need to set up the external >reference to begin with. I can imagine some examples - for instance, when >you want to do a given set of operations to any one of several objects, >you could assign an object reference of the selected object to a variable >or property and then use that reference - that's the point of >polymorphism.
Well, in this particular case I have a textbox that creates another textbox based on itself on init. I want an easy way for the child to reference the parent's properties and vice versa without using macro expansion. this.objref.Value looks a lot nicer than this.parent.&lcObjName..Value.

Michael G. Emmons.