Daniel,
>
>> Frankly, I don't think that there's anything that the Fox team could do
>> that would be universally accepted by all of us as being major.
>
>- A new superclass from which all other control classes - or even just the visual control classes - inherit from?

I'll give this a maybe.

>- Overloading?

Don't think so, if you're talking C++ style. It can be more of a PITA than anything else.