Ahh... Ok. I was thinking it used the dot at the end where the double dot was. Thank you!

>Joe,
>
>The first '.' in '&this.' ends macro substitution and generates an error because 'this' is an object not a string. You can get a property value this way

m.eventhours = EVAL("this.parent.parent." + this.parent.parent.priorday + ".eventhours")

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>>I agree that the dot marks the end of the substition, but shouldn't the addtional property "eventhours" still be tacked on the end they way I did it?
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>>>Joe,
>>>
>>>The '.' (dot) marks the end of macro substitution. Try

loPrevDay = EVAL("this.parent.parent." + this.parent.parent.priorday)

>>>
>>>>I'm working on a calendar class in vfp7. It's a container with child containers that act as days. User click a day container to insert an event. If they click a different day after one has been clicked already the event is moved. So I needed a way to reference the prior day clicked. I did this by storing the control name clicked in a property called "priorday" on the calendar class.
>>>>
>>>>this.parent.parent.priorday would be set to "Day4" for example. Now when I want to reference the prior day when control "Day5" was clicked I could do something like this.parent.parent.&this.parent.parent.priorday..eventhours.
>>>>However this doesn't work and I'm not sure why. Any tips?