> You know what would really be nice? A way of doing something similiar in VFP. Maybe something like: Form..Object.Property where the ".." tells VFP to figure it out for itself. It would help do away with the problems of indirect referencing - you could move them anywhere in the form and the code wouldn't break.

Actually, CB6 has a method of doing this. Each control has a property 'registryname' (which has nothing to do with the registry). When the object has a registry name at startup it registers itself with the form.

To reference it you do something like...

ThisForm.Registry('TheNameYouGaveIt').Value = 'ABC'

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