Thanks David, that was sortof what I was thinking of (I hadn't gotten that far yet though!)

I'll give it a try...
Tracy

>Tracy,
>
>It shouldn't be too hard to write a parser to read the SAY line and convert it to a label, and a GET to a textbox. Read DEFINE WINDOW title to get your form name:
>
>

pseudocode
>
>lcFormName =  ... && ie "lossnotice"
>if ( file( lcFormName + ".scx" ) )
>   * change name to prevent overwrites...
>endif
>
>create form (lcFormName) nowait
>aselobj( laForm, 1 )
>loForm = laForm[1]
>lnLabelCount = 1
>for each say
>   lcLabelName = "lbl" + transform( lnLabelCount )
>   loForm.AddObject( lcLabelName, "yourBaseLabel" )
>   loLabel = eval( "loForm." + lcLabelName )
>   with loLabel
>      .Visible = .t.
>      .Top = f( @ coordinate)
>      .Left = f( @ coordinate )
>      .Caption = f( the quoted text prompt )
>   endwith
>   lnLabelCount = lnLabelCount + 1
>endfor
>
>for each get
>   lcTxtName = "txt" + transform( lnTxtCount )
>   loForm.AddObject( lcTxtName, "yourBaseTextbox" )
>   ...
>endfor
>

>
>you could be as sophisticated as you want by looking at the type of the field that was equivalent to the old m. binding and use that to determine what control to add to the form.
>
>>

>>DEFINE WINDOW editwin FROM 2,6 TO 20+glRow,73 TITLE "LOSS NOTICE" FLOAT SHADOW FONT (glFontName), (glFontSize)
>>ACTIVATE WINDOW editwin
>>
>>@  1, 2 SAY com_name(mpo_insco(pol_number))
>>@  7, 2 SAY "Adjuster....:"
>>*...
>>@  3,51 GET m.lossdate VALID vEpoch(@m.lossdate)
>>@  9,16 GET m.pmtfor
>>*...
>>

>>Examples like the above (hundreds of them in our code) must be switched to forms...there are no .scx files for those because they were hand coded...