>Hi, I'm new to this forum, so please be patient.
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>I am just starting to mess around with Visual classes and setting up my own forms and such. I was wondering if there's a way to enforce behavior in a control in the Form Designer.
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>The idea is that I have a control, for simplicity say it's just a label. The control has a property 'cCaption' that's the caption for the label. What I want is to be able to set the cCaption property in the Form Designer/Properties window and have that value be reflected in the design window at design time.
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>I know I can make it take effect at run-time by using the Init() function, but I want to see changes to the control at design time.
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>Thanks for your help,
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>Tom

There isn't any automatic way of doing this, AFAIK. You would need to write your own builder/wizard that would change the look of your control.