Jos,
This bug was reported by someone on the newsgroup a couple of months ago. I was able to reproduce it, although some others could not.
It has been reported to the Europa beta test as well.
>Hi All.
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>VFP8/SP1
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>Create a form with a default Page Frame.
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>Edit the caption of either page frame with a period "." as follows:
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>1) Page1.Caption = ".Page1"
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>Result: caption displays as "Page1." && period appears at end of caption.
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>2) Page1.Caption = "Page1."
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>Result: caption displays as ".Page1" && period appears at start of caption.
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>Curious. Presumably something to do with the special usage of the period for object properties and so forth.