>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. I missed the beginning of this thread but for a child to reference a parent, the simpliest way will be This.Parent.Property.Value. As for the parent to reference the child, I remember that we used the EVALUATE function at several times instead of the macro but I don't remember excatly what was the syntax.