>Just remember that in a control's init(), the form doesn't exist yet -- containers in VFP instance from the inside out. If you need to reference the form, then in the form init() I would feed all the objects to the preference engine, like this
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>

>*-- Form Init()
>FOR EACH oControl IN THIS.Controls
>  oPreference.Execute( oControl)
>ENDFOR
>

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>This method might be best since it requiores code in one place only, and the interface control classes don't need to know about the preference engine, and that makes them more reusable.


I learned about the "inside out" approach after making some bad assumptions a while back. Once I had thought about it for a while, it started to make some sense. Your Form Init() approach looks good to me. I find that I'm finally starting to see the OOP approach as something that feels right, rather than something that I have to figure out. This one feels right.

Thanks for the ideas.
Bob