>>I think you're right. The following supports your assertion:
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>If the final version of VFP7 has ExecScript running fast, from now on I'm not going to use a Method in my VFP7 classes.
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>I'll just add the text to a property, and when I do:
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>lcNumber = thisform.GetNumber
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>An Access method will do an ExecScript on the property and return the value ;-)

That sounds like an excellent plan. But there is no need to make things so simple when you could use the VBScript control's Eval method to run everything. Or even:

=STRTOFILE(THIS.Value, "Sometempfile.txt")
RETURN FILETOSTR("sometempfile.txt")