If you are doing this before the form is visible, set the VISIBLE property to true before getting/setting its other properties.

>I have placed a label on a form, and at runtime I need to find out its Top, Left, Width, and Height that were set at design time.
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>Oddly enough, the Width returns the wrong value (wherease the top, left, and height return the design time value).
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>As an example:
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>WAIT WINDOW STR(THISFORM.lblLast.Top) && returns 84 which is correct
>WAIT WINDOW STR(THISFORM.lblLast.Left)  && returns 156 which is correct
>WAIT WINDOW STR(THISFORM.lblLast.Height)  && returns 17 which is correct
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>WAIT WINDOW STR(THISFORM.lblLast.Width)  && returns 83 which is NOT correct - it should be 136
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>Any suggestions on what is going on here?
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>Mel Cummings