>>>>>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?
>>>>
>>>>This classes have hidden properties:
>>>>

>>>>DataEnv : it have all the container's PEMs
>>>>
>>>>* hidden methods for a future VCX support
>>>>Writemethod,SaveAsClass :
>>>>Header,Session,Column
>>>>
>>>>* hidden Class Designer positioning
>>>>Left,Top,Height,Width :
>>>>Hyperlink,Relation,Cursor,CursorAdapter,Collection
>>>>XmlField,XMLTable,XMLAdapter,ProjectHook
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>A more general way ( slow )
>>>>

>>>>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'
>>>....
>>>

>>
>>
>>Hi Gregory,
>>unfortunally this is not usable cause a bug,
>>if the property it is not readable VARTYPE() fire a error.
>>try
>>

>>WITH CREATEOBJECT('aaa')
>>? VARTYPE(.hprop)
>>? VARTYPE(.pprop)
>>? VARTYPE(.prop)
>>ENDWITH
>>
>>DEFINE CLASS aaa as Custom
>>	HIDDEN hprop
>>	PROTECTED pprop
>>	hprop = .T.
>>	pprop = .T.
>>	prop = .T.
>>ENDDEFINE
>>

>>
>>Fabio
>
>You're right Fabio,
>If fires an error if protected or hidden, but not if the property does not exist
>
>

>obj= CREATEOBJECT('aaa')
>? VARTYPE(m.obj.width)
>
>
>
>DEFINE CLASS aaa as Relation
>	>ENDDEFINE
>

Thanks Gregory, this small, but important, detail were escaped to me.