>oForm1.Width = oForm1.Width + 10
>
>Garrett, you call the form width, not the Text width.

Yes, because that's generally what anchors are for.

>	PROCEDURE txt1.Width_assign
>		LPARAMETERS vNewVar
>		? "Assigning Text1 Width."
>		? "next print is a call into the left"
>		=this.Left && i use the current left for overlap the vNewVar
>		? "After read this Left."
>		This.Width = vNewVar
>	ENDPROC

But if you're trying to change the width beyond what anchoring does, why are you using the Anchor functionality at all?

Update: or more to the point, you claimed that it was destructive. Why? Your examples aren't demonstrating that: they're only demonstrating that the behavior exists.