Yeah, that's an incredibly good idea.  I think it would also be very useful for 
tables as well - being able to manage metadata for a table without creating a 
special record has been on my wish list for decades now... 

> On Feb 22, 2017, at 7:12 PM, David Adams via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> The idea is to have an automatic, internal C_OBJECT-type structure (a
> dictionary) maintained by 4D for each widget on a form. If they did this,
> you wouldn't see anything different on the form, but if you wanted to
> associated custom attributes or data with the widget (rules, bindings,
> hints, extra lookup data, filters, formats, privileges, etc.), you would
> know right where to get/set the data.

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