>Michael,
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>>What are the usual practices with VFP ?
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>To subclass them all before you use them.
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>Another reason not yet mentioned is so that you can fix the things that are "wrong" with the VFP baseclasses. For example making Labels Autosize = .t. and BackStyle transparent, fixing the Textbox so the backspace key will not exit the field and take you to the prior control and wiping out it's content.

David,

That's a good one.

How do you fix the backspace key?

Thanks in advance