That's exactly what I did but it seems a bit of an overkill to create a method to return a property value instead of just looking at the property value!

>Leave the property protected and then create a custom method (i.e. RdSecLev) to read and return the value. Then
>when you want the value of the property use a call to the method (i.e. lcSecLev = oSec.RdSecLev).
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>-myron kirby-
>myronk@flash.net
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>>Is there any way of creating a read-only custom property in a subclass? I have tried setting the property to Protected, but in the exe it is not found. I am populating the property via a method in the same subclass and want to compare the contents at different intervals but I want the property to be read-only. The only way of reading the contents would be to make it public - I don't want that!