Gerard,

Check out the AddProperty method. It should do what you want. I think this is VFP6 and later. The Help doesn't state a limit, but there *may* be one.

As to private to the form, I'm not sure what you mean. Since a property has to be hierarchically addressed, it's sort of 'private' intrinsically.

good luck

Jim Nelson

>Is there a way to dynamically, at run time, create Properties and make them private to the form ?
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>If this is possible, I could cycle through each relevant file, and make each field a Property of the form.
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>Regards,
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>>Gerard,
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>>If you do that, each variable will be local to each method, rather than to the form. IOW, if you have variable x in the init() and in the when() methods, they will not be the same variable.
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>>>If I make all the Memory variables lcoal,by looping around every field in a particular file, will these memory variables not then be local to the screen and not interfere with a second instance. If this is the case, I should not need to set up a Screen object to hold the memory variables ?
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