>>I don't know if it's relevant to your problem but an expresion in a property gets evaluated only the first time object gets instantiated. After that FoxPro uses cached values on consequent object creations for the same class.
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>Yes, even at the first time, right after the object creation, the value is not, sometimes, properly represented, if the COM EXE has been running for a while.

Can you assign the value to the property in the Init?