>After some chat with you, now I also agree that TYPE([oControl.Name]) = "C" is enough. As I learned :
>- Scatter name oName wouldn't be treaded like a real object.
>- And with that exception Name property cannot be prevented to be seen.
>Cetin

Scatter Name oAnything - has anyone succeeded having this do something useful? I've played with it for a while, hoping to have an object like that to keep me olde values of all the open tables in a form, but I couldn't get this object to belong to a form at all - if it already belongs to a form, it won't scatter; if it doesn't, it becomes a private var to the method which created it, and I sure wouldn't like to make it a public var. With VFP completely lacking object cloning, this object can't be kept at all - trying to copy it to a form's member creates just a referrence to this oAnything, and goes .null. as soon as the method which created it exits.

Has anyone managed to work around this? I have found not a workaround, but a much better solution for my particular case, but in general, I think I may use this Scatter Name somewhere, IF it behaved.