Before you can get the correct width, you have to set the Visible property to .T.

>I'm using VFP 8.
>
>I placed a label called lblSection on a container. AutoSize is
>set to TRUE. The caption is defaulted to an empty string, which
>makes it's width 2.
>
>This container has 2 methods, SetCaption and Resize.
>
>The problem is that after I set the caption, the width is still
>2. I tried setting the AutoSize to .F. and back to .T., still
>no effect.
>
>Why won't the label's Width change?