Gerry,

Don't get me wrong, Access/Assign are great additions to the language. In all the code I've done in VFP I'm hard pressed to come up with a use case where using them on native properties is required. I imagine most code that is being hooked to form.Width or form.Height would be better off just put in the Resize event. A/A work as expected with custom properties.

I don't have a theory about why assign is being triggered because of the access on the native properties, it's buggy behavior IMO.

>Yes ... I do pretty extensive testing. It does seem the problem is limited to certain properties. I just have to revisit them all, that's by biggest beef. I "thought" that everything was working fine .... I just can't be sure now and have to retest to be sure.
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>(A craftsman is only as good as his tools, and when he looses confidence in his tools ...).
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>Like you, I should have stayed away from ACCESS/ASSIGN, but where I did use them, they had seemed ideal (at the time).