>Hi gang-
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>I haven't programmed in VFP for a little while so I think i am losing my mind asking this. I am trying to have a property (cshipto) as the name of an object on the form (this.parent.cbocustno). Then, I will use the value stored in cshipto to lookup the value of the object (this.parent.cbocustno.value).....is there a way to do this?
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>In other words, how do i use the value of the property to look up the value in another object?
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>Thanks for your help...i think this is a gimmie....
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>Geoff

Geoff,
FWIW do not do it. You might end up with hanging object references. Simply use with..endwith instead. But in any case these are legal :

cshipto = this.parent.cbocustno
*...
myValue = cshipto.Value

You might better handle it by storing the name as string instead. ie:

cshipto = stuff(sys(1272,this.parent.cbocustno),1,len(thisform.name),'thisform')

*....
with eval(cShipTo)
 myValue = .Value
endwith

Cetin