Many thanks for responses and ideas.

John,
So it is by design. Good to know it. However I would prefer to have known functionality unchaged in the new versions. I cannot see the situation when 'old' functionality like we discuss would cause the problem. In this case why not to introduce another and additional 'label2' class?


>Hi Yuri,
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>VFP 8.0 allows captions to be evaluated as string expressions, therefore, a "=" raises an error as VFP expects an expression to follow. You need some other character to come first.
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>>Working on the problem Thread #800841 I have discovered that VFP8 does not accept caption = or chr(61) (='=' or =chr(61)) for regular label. Did anybody meet this situation?
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>>It is a common label for VFP6 and VFP7. VFP8 accepts only (=' =') with the space before second =.