>>>>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 :
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>>>>fld="Thisform.Pageframe.Basic.Field1.Visible=.F."
>>>>&fld
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>>>>Does anybody know, what could be wrong?
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>>>What error message do you get?
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>>There came no messages. I took &fld to a variable, and it was .F., like this :
>>reply=&Fld --> reply got value .F.
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>That is quite logical. Think about it:
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>fld = "Thisform.Pageframe.Basic.Field1.Visible=.F."
>reply = &fld
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>The macro substitution replaces fld with its contents, so you have:
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>reply = fld = Thisform.Pageframe.Basic.Field1.Visible=.F.
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>The right equal sign gets evaluated first, by doing a comparison. Assuming .Visible is true, you get
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>fld = .T. = .F.
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>Now, the right side is evaluated - this simplifies to:
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>fld = .F.
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>So, of course, .F. is stored to the variable.
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>If you want to run the command, all you need is:
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>fld = "Thisform.Pageframe.Basic.Field1.Visible=.F."
>reply = &fld
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>without trying to assign the result to any variable.
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>HTH, Hilmar.


Ok, it is working now. Thanks for your help. The problem was in a grid. I tried to change the order of the columns this way.

Tapani