In Init event of a Form I do something like this:

Testvar = 'Agenttrack.name'
THIS.Text2.ControlSource =  Testvar

...and it works, assigning the value from the table...check your spelling and table names, etc...

HTH,

-Irv.


>Hi,
>
>I have a user defined screen in which I want to assign the controsource of a textbox to a value stored in a variable.
>
>This works fine:
>.controlsource='ARCHIVE.FAX'
>
>I have a table called udarc which holds the field_name I want to assign as the control source
>unfortunately when I do:
>
>lcsource='ARCHIVE.'+udarc.field_name
>.controlsource=lcsource
>
>I get:
>
>the data source for this object must be a variable reference.
>
>In this case of course the value in udarc.field_name is 'FAX'
>
>How do I get this to work?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Brian