Or possibly in the control's Init the control is not considered "instantiated" in the column yet so the read-only restriction does not yet apply. Very interesting.

>Hi!
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>I guess it is exactly for controls like text box that supported by VFP in column object completely. ;)
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>>Hi Vlad, thanks for the info. Code in the Init worked ok. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure I tried that before or not. :-) This is interesting since the Help on the Height and Width properties says:
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>>"Note The Height property is read-only when it applies to a control contained in a Column object."
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>>That's what I get for believing MS. :-)