>Cheers Chris,
>
>So you are saying that I cannot extend the backcolor property from anywhere else (such as the label class) to use with my custom command subclass . . .that sounds extremely restrictive to me.

Correct. That's a core feature of the language, not something you can add on. As I said though, VFP 8 does have that.

>So more to the point, how would you get around the problem so that you can have a button of any colour that appears to function as a command button?

I've never had the desire/reason to do so, but I seem to recall previous mentions of this being answered with 'use an invisible command button and an image'. A search of the message base (or ask Sergey... *G*) should turn up something.

Chris.