>form. My ideas are as follows: >Textboxes, spinners, lists, etc., have a custom property called datafield. >This property is filled at design time with the value that would normally >reside in controlsource. There is another property called editmode. (This >is toggled in the add/edit/save/undo methods, just like form.editmode. The >controlsource property is left empty. The refresh event of the classes: > >this.value = eval(this.datafield) > Just another idea: for every alias involved in a form, create an object oAlias on the form. Then just Select the_alias Scatter Blank name oAlias Every control could then have controlsource oAlias.fieldname. At save time we could either Insert into the_alias from name oAlias or gather from name oAlias depending on what we do (insert or update). What do you think of this?