Hi Martin, the getStartPt() method on curves returns a "data structure point" which is a lightweight object that contains only x,y,z coordinates in it. It isn't the type of point object that goes into the geometry database and has those other various properties like style, hidden, selection, etc...

What you probably want to get at are the "edit points" of the curve (the ones that show with Edit > Show pts), but unfortunately currently the edit points of a curve or surface are not individually addressable by script, so there isn't any way to script that particular thing currently.

- Michael