Something like a text / dbf file that is read into a cursor at the start or every form and the properties populated in their own respective init()'s?

>Of course, there would be an impact on performance, but most of the time this could be almost unnoticeable. If you had all the keywords in an open cursor (which you can populate from a DBF or a text file), and you access it trough a method such as:
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>oApp.Language.Translate( "This is a string" )
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>oApp.Language.Translate( this.Caption )
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>There shouldn't be a great performance. Also, you can instrument your base classes so they take care of adapting to the context language setting. In VFP 8.0, I'd rather use BindEvent, so I don't have to touch my classes, but rather use an external approach.
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>The best you can do is to take your most complex form and make some tests.
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>Hope this helps,