David,

I'll check it out and let you know. It's the SoftwareFX ChartFX server-side COM control.

>I don't see that the names conflict, but did you try using .object.Step? Another straw grasp does changing the order of the lines within the WITH make a difference?
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>What COM control is this?
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>>Nope. Syntax error. I also tried putting the object reference into a var and macro-expanding it, and every other permutation I could think of before stumbling on the one that worked.
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>>The craziest part of it was the the property assignment worked if I called it in an external prg. So, I assume VFP got confused while parsing in the control structure at the point where the assignment was to be made...
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>>Those lines were in a CASE structure, but for fun I put the one line in the external prg inside a CASE structure and it still worked fine.