>Has anyone got a good tight routine that recurses through all controls on a form, including containers, pageframes etc. ?
>
>I keep coming up with code that looks too ugly to be doing it smart ! :)

If you're in VFP 7 or later, you can use the Objects property. This is untested, but should give you the idea:

FUNCTION Process
LPARAMETERS oControl

* Do whatever to oControl

IF PEMSTATUS(oControl, "Objects", 5)
   FOR EACH oObject IN oControl.Objects
      This.Process(oObject)
   ENDFOR
ENDIF

Oh, and the verb you're looking for is "recur," not "recurse."

Tamar