Brien,
PMFJI, but I'm not sure I understand your problem.

When you use AddProperty, the control is not added to the context of the form container. When the form is displayed, only objects contained in the form can be displayed. AddObject adds objects to the form's Objects collection.

Once you add the form or form class to the form, you can access and change any property you want. The code below would look like:

gofrm = create("form")
gofrm.AddObject("textboxname","textbox")
gofrm.textboxname.Visible = .T.
gofrm.show(1)

One other thing. My tests of this show the textbox being added at position 0,0. You might want to work with the positioning *s*.

>Hi Barb,
>
>I did a search through the old messages on AddObject, but didn't find the thread. Is it possible to create the object and inherit all the properties & methods from the reference?
>
>>Hi Brien,
>>
>>This was in a thread a few days ago -- You need to use "AddObject()" to place the textbox on the form.
>>
>>HTH
>>Barbara
>>
>>>Code:
>>>
>>>gofrm = create("form")
>>>gotxt = create("textbox")
>>>gotxt.visible = .t.
>>>gofrm.addproperty("txt1",gotxt)
>>>gofrm.show(1)
>>>
>>>Who can tell me why the textbox in this form is not visible?