Then let me rephrase...I think that the two statements (the 2 below) do not disagree with each other.

>No they don't :-), but I agree with Dave now. See my other post. If you create a command button class, and in the click method of the class access a protected property or method of the same class at the same level then drop that button onto a form, the click method fails!
>
>>Dave & David,
>>
>>Your two statements completely agree with one another...
>>
>>>>PMJI,
>>>>An object on a form can't access a protected property of the form. Only methods in the form class itself can.
>>>>Is that the problem?
>>>
>>>No. An object on the form cannot access its own protected properties. For example, code inside click method cannot access this.protectedproperty.
>>>
>>>
>>>-Dave