Did you try refreshing the control whose properties you changed afterwards (or the pageframe)?

fld="Thisform.Pageframe.Basic.Field1.refresh()"
&fld

Just an idea to try.

Tracy

>>>Hi, I tried to change proterties of form-objects via memo-field. Forexample writied to memo "Thisform.Pageframe.Basic.Field1.Visible=.F.". In the program then tooked it to a variable and tried as follow :
>>>
>>>fld="Thisform.Pageframe.Basic.Field1.Visible=.F."
>>>&fld
>>>
>>>Does anybody know, what could be wrong?
>>
>>What error message do you get?
>
>There came no messages. I took &fld to a variable, and it was .F., like this :
>reply=&Fld --> reply got value .F.
>
>
>Tapani