Hi Larry,

for normal operation (i.e. written code) it seems to work this way.
But there is at least the debugger that will change. (What is o.k.)

And it to me it seems to work this way for controlsources

if I do

thisform.mypager.page1.txtMy.controlsource = 'thisform.myProp'

I fail

thisform.mypager.page1.txtMy.controlsource = 'this.parent.parent.parent.myProp'

on the opposite works fine.

Possibly I'm doing someting wrong, but I have no idea what
Agnes

>Agnes,
>No it doesn't. _Screen.ActiveForm changes WRT the form that has focus. THISFORM is an internal variable used within a control to access the parent form.
>
>Regards.