I wasn't worried so much about using them, just wondering about the differences between the intrinsic Text and Value properties and trying match what someone else might expect them to do. Thanks.

>The access methods can, indeed, be confusing. An alternative, that would make it clearer to another programmer, what is going on, would be to create your own methods, which you might name TxtPath.SetValue(), and TxtPath.GetValue().
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>However, I think there is nothing basically wrong with using _access and _assign to change a property value. For instance, this allows you to change a property type, without having to search through your entire code.
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>Hilmar.
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