>>Thanks Marcia! That should do the trick. I'm still confused as to why PEMSTATUS() says there's a Width property on my page when everything else says there isn't. Have you seen that behaviour before?
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>This classes have hidden properties:
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>DataEnv : it have all the container's PEMs
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>* hidden methods for a future VCX support
>Writemethod,SaveAsClass :
>Header,Session,Column
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>* hidden Class Designer positioning
>Left,Top,Height,Width :
>Hyperlink,Relation,Cursor,CursorAdapter,Collection
>XmlField,XMLTable,XMLAdapter,ProjectHook
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>A more general way ( slow )
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>IF !PEMSTATUS(m.oControl,"nOrigWidth",5) AND TYPE("m.oControl.Width")=='N'
>....
>

>Fabio

hi Fabio,

I think this is a lot faster

IF !PEMSTATUS(m.oControl,"nOrigWidth",5) AND vartype(m.oControl.Width)=='N'
....