Glad to help. I had the same revelation about custom properties not to long ago myself. Moving straight from FP2.5 DOS to VFP 5, I started developing my first app with public variables all over the place when, into about my fourth form, the lightbulb came on for me. Actually, IMO, making that revelation helped me better understand the basis of OOP and helped to evolve my thinking for design purposes.

>Thanks a lot for your response to my question about global tool bars. I had a big breakthrough from the Universal Thread messages as well as the Developer's Guide. I never realized that the created oAPP objects in the examples were simply PUBLIC variables with objects attached.
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>With this in mind, I attached my tool bar to a public variable and it works great. That was the only missing piece of the puzzle! I'm still relatively new to Visual FoxPro and now understand a lot more about how its runtime-created objects work. I can also see how one can do away with a lot of public variables by making them properties of the main public object.
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>Thanks again!
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>Michael Reynolds
>Santa Barbara, California