>>What I meant was once I drop it on the form as a label object, can I go into it's properties and set it's properties such as caption?
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>Yes you can do it from there directly. That's what I mentioned before. Well, maybe my words confused you <g>.
>Notes: no need to put the quotes when you type in the text for caption and fontname.
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>>Another caveat, I have a setall in effect on this form and it overides your class. What to do?
>like thisform.Setall('foreColor',rgb(0,128,0),'label')
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>I don't think it will overides the class. The label class is named "LblChar" not "Label". However I just tried this, and no it is not changing. If you put this code (below) it overides.
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>thisform.Setall( 'foreColor', rgb(0,128,0), 'LblChar' )

Actually it was "THISFORM.SETALL("foreCOLOR",RGB(0,0,160))" but I removed it so no effect. But this command has no effect
"thisform.colorlabel1.caption=item_name" it still says "colorlabel"

PS. Is it not the wee hours where you live?