AFAIK, in Visual FoxPro, when you write something like ThisForm.MyTextBox, you are always referring to the object itself, not to one of the properties. You always have to specify the property, and a frequent cause of bugs is to confuse "ThisForm.MyTextBox" with "ThisForm.MyTextBox.Value".

OTOH, this syntax can be useful too; there are quite a few things you can do with pointers to objects. For instance, you can pass ThisForm.MyTextBox as a parameter to a function. The function, then, does something with the specified TextBox.

Hilmar.

>>Hi!
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>>No. You can define property TextBox, than add object TextBox. Property will return value when Accessing TextBox as object will work with object. Than in the textBox_Assign method you define what to return from TextBox object. But this is with use of the parent container only...
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>>>Hi all,
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>>>Is there a way to assign a default property to an object in VFP? In VB, this is possible:

Form.Textbox = Form.Textbox.Text

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>>>Thanks,
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>I probably mistated my question. In VB you can get the value of the default property of an object without bothering to use the property name:
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>Example:
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>dim x as string
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>' any of the following line of codes is valid
>set x = Form.Textbox
>set x = Form.Textbox.Text
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>' both will return the value of the default property which is .Text
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