>On a form; if you have a label who's autosize property is .t., and alignment = right and you change it's caption in the form's init method
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>the label's LEFT property does not change; EVER...
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>Thoughts on how to work around this?
>I want to draw a box around the label's caption that's "adjusted" for the individual caption...

If you are looking for the text size and width in the defined font on the form then try textheight or textwidth this will return the size of the text you pass to it.

this might help in sizing the box for the label
and sizing the label instead of autosize..

Hope this helps
Shawn