> Yes, perhaps even at design time! We could make it have
> all the pros of persistent fields without the quirks
> and shortcomings. Setting an event property at design
> time would merely have the function of reminding the
> component to do an assignment at run time, after prepare.
> A much less invasive thing than persistent fields.

This line of thought went through my mind - and I think that is what
scared me off. There are lots of issues and things could get quite
messy (integration with existing Fields* properties, the SchemaCache
and more).

I suspect that **if** it does happen will remain a runtime only apsect
at least for IBO4 (anyway thats my opinion). Probably such a change
would remain largely invisible to the normal user and be setup
primarily to make some aspects (such as assignment of event handlers)
more intuitive.

Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing