>Nadya,
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>>I have a different idea. Put amembers(thisform.aMembBefore) in the first line of form's Init and at the last line in form's init. This way you would have array of objects, which were instantiated in design-time (before form's Init) and after.
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>Thanks for your reply! You're right, this would work as well, when the form needs to know, what objects are being added.
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>But if the control needs to know in it's Init, if it is added after the form's init has been run, this couldn't be determined easily.

I've never tried this... and I don't know if it'll work either, but... how about checking the name of the object from parent's side:

oRef=eval("this.parent."+this.name)
if type("oRef.name")...
   if oRef.name=this.name

I think the parent would see it under its proper name if it was added at design time, but won't if it's still not done with its .init, and would only then assign it a name (or would never do so, if .init returns .f.).
If this works, it may be easier than (re)cursing the call stack.