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>>3 - Is it my imagination or are only some of the methods-props avaialable to an object actually displayed in the editor or prop sheet?
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>>I believe that only those properties that can be changed at design time are listed. But that doesn't narrow down *too* much (and besides, how useful is it really to have items like Z-Order listed on a PEM sheet?).
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>Well - it's nice to know what is available. The only way I can "see" any of these props is from the intellisense when writing code. Am I missing something there? this seems like a tough way to find out what is available.

One quick way to see what is available is pressing F2. This brings up the Object browser (I'm sure there is a menu option for it somewhere.) All the available objects are on the left side of the screen. Pick the one you're instrested in, and all the associated PEMs (as well as enumerated types) are listed on the right. Highlight one and quick info appears at the bottom of the screen.

As to there being less PEMs between VFP and VB, I used to be a Fox Programmer (for the last 5 years. I just changed to VB this year.) Almost everything that you could do in VFP can be done in VB easily (as far as PEMs go.) Inheritence, outside of ActiveX, is much trickier to accomplish. But what you gain by working with real objects (handles, hDCs and the like) is well worth the headache of what you loose in OO. I fought it for the first few months, but I'm starting to actually like it ;-)

Ben Keene
icarz.com