>Does anyone know why this would be the case? Am I doing some wrong or are VFP controls not exposed in the same manner as other tools (eg VB). Is anyone aware of any commercial testing tools that can identify individual VFP controls as objects.

Paul,

On the heels of Sergey's comments - if you were to use external automated testing packages with VFP apps, you're basically looking at storing a library of bitmap captures of the controls on the screen with which to do your comparisons for test success/failure.

Laterness,
Jon