In the debugger, you check the value of 'This' and it reports an object. Can you check the value of 'This.Name'?

Alan

>Alan,
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>Thanks for trying to assist me. I made mymethod Public but it still produces an error.
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>Does my explaination of the fact that I cannot see any of the "control.textbox" properties give you a hint as to what is causing the problem?
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>Mike
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>>You'll need to reset it to 'Public', or else only the base class can use it. I don't like it either, but I've been stung by it before too.
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>>Alan
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>>>Thanks for the reply Jose.
>>>
>>>mymethod is defined in the textbox base class. What do you mean by "selected it as Private". The only settings I see for methods is "Public, Protected or Hidden" and it is currently set to "Protected".
>>>
>>>The thing that is strange to me is the fact that when I suspend the code in the textbox.gotfocus event of the instance of the control in my form, I can trace thru the code that includes a DODEFAULT(). The debugger traces to the class code but then errors when it encounters the following
>>>
>>>

>>>WITH THIS
>>>   .mymethod()
>>>ENDWITH
>>>

>>>
>>>If I check what the value of "THIS" is, it is reported as an Object. However, if I try to see any of the properties like this.width or this.height, I get "Expression could not be evaluated"! Obviously VFP knows that this object exists. It just doesn't seem to know the details including the fact that mymethod exists.
>>>
>>>Any ideas.
>>>