Simple once you see it! <g> Thanks to both of you. This stuff is only beginning to "jell". Long way to go.

1. Would I be correct that:
If I have the list of directives, it would be easier to create one list of:
Thisform.text1.controlsource = [Thisform.S_data(ccn)]
Thisform.text2.controlsource = [Thisform.S_data(cdate)]
etc. etc.
in the init of the Form instead of doing:

this.controlsource="thisform.s_data(ccn)"
since that type code would have to go in the init of *each* control?

2. In the case where the forms's init sets the controlsource to Thisform.text1.controlsource = [Thisform.S_data(ccn)] but the controlsource property still had the S_date[cc] code, which "takes priority"?

3. Is there any difference in priority if I use the control's init to set THIS.controlsource = [THISFORM.s_data(ccn)] but the control's controlsource property still had the S_date[ccn] code in it, again which "takes priority, the init or the controlsource property? What I wondering is with either or both do I HAVE to edit controlsource and physically remove the S_date[ccn]?
With lots of controls and lots of forms to convert, it would certainly be easier to ignore it.

2. The program that converted the old code created names for the controls according to its conventions.
So if I use the forms init, and since I have to use the real names of the controls instead of "text1" that you've used, is there a way to general a list of the control names with their corresponding controlsources to cut and paste into the list that I have to create? Do I open the .scx, parse out the CONTROLSOURCE line from a "list for 'CONTROLSOURCE = 'S_DATA'$upper(PROPERTIES)?
Do I write some code to get the Objname of the records set I want and Replace the init of the same record/object with it's contents plus:
"this.controlsource=[thisform.s_data(ccn)"

Or is there some nice utility that lists that type of "stuff" for me?