Well...

Interesting. I think I'm gonna have to enroll you in the "Koziol School of 'Bash It With a Big Hammer Until It Works Dammit' Application Engineering"


>>Yup...it don't work. So what I do in these situations is to set the ControlSource to a container property and create an Assign for that property. In the Assign I update the backend (real) ControlSource with a REPLACE.
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>Thats more like a Valid than a Value_Assign, the way to do it would be puting something like:
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if pemstatus(this, 'value_assign', 5)
>	this.value_assign(this.value)
>endif

>in the IA and ProgrammaticChange events, but why? Dunno. Here's my theroy on why using the UI to change a controls value doesn't fire the Value_Assign Method: because displaying the Control's value would have to go through the Value_Access method, and if their was a control source involved, I have the feeling it would get a little messy, if not slow.
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>In any case, the Change events are apart of the base class so instance code can be added easily and provide all teh functionality you'll need.