Well, if you type in this.Parent. you'll see Intellisense will show BackColor as one of the available properties. Did you try this?

~~Bonnie


>I want the name of the parent object so that I can change the background color of the parent object.
>
>>OK, lemme put it this way ... what *kind* of information do you need? There are a few things you can get by examining this.Parent and there's nothing wrong with doing things that way.
>>
>>~~Bonnie
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>>>That how you would do it in Foxpro.
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>>>>Is this.Parent what you need?
>>>>
>>>>~~Bonnie
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>>>>>I have a form with 2 panels. Each panel contains a button. When I press the button I want to display the name of the panel. I expect to use GetContainerControl to give me this information but I can't figure out how to use the function. Basically I want access to information about a controls parent.
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA
>>>>>Robert