Hi Christian,

>(didn't remember why i set them at all to this value) all works fine

maybe you haven't set them to = yourself < g >. Was that class one of those that didn't have a ToolTipText property in earlier versions of VFP? A minute ago, I've found out, that my base Container, OptionGroup, etc. classes in a project have the same problem. I had added a ToolTipText property in VFP7, which I set to (none). In VFP8, the properties, which are native VFP properties now contain =

This prevented some of my form classes with those controls on them from instantiating. The syntax error also occured when doing a MODI CLASS.

Regards,
Armin

>Hello,
>
>i've found the setting that causes my "syntax error":
>
>it was due to Tooltiptext and Statusbartext Properties in one of my classes was set to "=" (without the parens) .. now that i removed them (didn't remember why i set them at all to this value) all works fine
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>Regards
>
>Christian