Hi Ed,

Any ideas why this is happening or who would know this?

>It's interesting - the object ref exists and ISNULL() returns .f. - but the control is not a member of the Container Textbox2's Controls or Objects collection. The test scenario was to create the defines as shown do a SET PROC TO prg containing defines. I then created a base form and added the following to the Init:
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>thisform.addobject('testbox','testbox')
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>prior to running the form, I did the following to expose the _Screen object in the locals:
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>oSc = _screen
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>I then ran the form, and explored the collections through the object ref.