I think it is more like a preference. There is also a little advantage in readability - if I see "thisform" - I don't need to recheck which object the code belongs to like in case of using "this".

>Is your preference for 'ThisForm' just that - a preference? Or do you see an actual advantage over using 'This'. Readability maybe?
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>Just curious about why people choose one thing over another.
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>Alan
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>>Even it this case such an error will be a rare occasion, as most of the control classes will be instantiated in a form anyways, and it will cause an error only if the class is instantiated outside the form. I myself prefer to use "thisform" in form code.
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>>>About the only advantage to 'This' over 'ThisForm' in this instance that I can see would show up if you wanted to move it all to a class. If you did that, then 'ThisForm' would be an error.
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>>>On the other hand, if you wanted to move the code to another object on the form, the reverse would be true. In general, I feel like 'This' is more portable, so I like it better for that reason. If you aren't considering portability, then I don't see that it makes any difference.
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>>>Alan
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>>>>When building new forms, I found myself repeating calls to business objects dropped on the form. About half of the calls were This.Bizobj.Somefunction() and the other half Thisform.Bizobj.Somefunction().
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>>>>In this instance, THIS and THISFORM were the same, so I'm wondering which would be the better to use, and why. Neither Help or HackFox 7 shed any light on this thought.