Hi Eric,

>>Can you give me an example?
>
>Sure:
>
>

>Lets say I'm wanting to set the color of a shape in a graphical
>representation of some data. I have a mask to tell me what to do...
>
>for lnCnt = 1 to SliderPosition
> for lnCnt2 = 1 to SomeNumberOfShapes
>   if occurs("T", lcCurMask) > 0
>     lcCommand = "this.Object"+allt(str(lnCnt-lnSlider+1))+;
>	         ".shape"+allt(str(lnCnt2))+".visible = .T."
>     &lcCommand
>     lcCommand = "this.Object"+allt(str(lnCnt-lnSlider+1))+;
>		 ".shape"+allt(str(lnCnt2))+".backcolor = rgb(0,255,0)"
>     &lcCommand
>   endif
> endfor
>endfor
>
>

>
>The example is not complete but basically I'm setting the visible and color properties of a row of shapes in an object based on the count minus the position of a slider control plus one. :)

Just to play devil's advocate...<G>
Couldn't you avoid the macro expansion like this:

loCtrl = "this.Object"+allt(str(lnCnt-lnSlider+1))+".shape"+allt(str(lnCnt2))
with loCtrl
   .visible = .T.
   .backcolor = rgb(0,255,0)
endwith

Not saying this is better or worse, but the original post was to say macro expansion could be avoided.