I have five comboboxes based on my class "cbocombopopup". I want to use the Right-Click method of this class to popup another form that has a grid with my "metadata" table as the record source. I want to filter the table according to which subclassed combobox the user right clicks on. Why does this work in the Right-Click method of my Class, the name of the subclassed combobox is "cboRef":

   IF This.Parent.Name = "frmQuoteNum"
     SELECT metadata
     SET FILTER TO ALLTRIM(datafield) = "cboRef"
   ENDIF

...but this doesn't work:

  IF This.Parent.Name = "frmQuoteNum"
     SELECT metadata
     SET FILTER TO ALLTRIM(datafield) = ALLTRIM(This.Name)
  ENDIF

Right now I'm ending up using the first example with DO CASE ...ENDCASE statements for the name of each combobox that I want to use this for. But I'd like to know why I can't just refer to the "This.Name" property in my Filter statement.


Thank you.