Mitch,

No, you can't. AddObject() simply puts an object of the given name into the container. Once it's in there you can scan the Objects[] collection to find it:

for each loObject in this.Objects
   if ( loObject.Name == "text123" )
      ? "found it"
      loObject.Left = loObject.Left + 10 && move it
   endif
endfor

Can you give more information about why you specifically need to use control arrays? With the SetAll() method and the above for loop you can do most anything to the objects that you'd want to do. (I'm not a VB guy so I don't know exactly how control arrays are used in VB)

>The problem is you can't specify an element of a control array using .AddObject
>Right?
>
>
>this.AddObject( "text123", "textbox" )
>with this.text123
> .Top = 50
> .Left = 200
> .Visible = .t.
>endwith