I had this happen once in VFP6. What I did was open the VCXs as DBFs and pack them. Again, this was in 6. Another thought, after removing the shape from the parent open the child classes and see if there is still a reference to the shape in the Objectname, Parent, or Properties fields.
HTH jeff

>I'm using VFP 7.0
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>I have a class with 2 sub-classes.
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>I'm trying to delete a shape control from the parent class that is not used in the sub-classes in any way.
>After deleting the shape, I get "internal inconsistancy" error when I try to modify or use the sub-classes and VFP shuts down. I put the shape back into the parent class and everything is fine.
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>Can someone point me in the direction to find out what the problem is?
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>TIA