Jim,
How can you see this solved in VFP (or any other tool?!)
if you wan to step through the containership hierarchy you have to know something about it..

IAC, for this particualr case I think the best solution would be for any
object to pass a reference to itself - and this way you don't really care about where relatively it is located

Arnon


>John,
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>. . . and some continue to say that there is no object referencing problem with VFP! I think you give another example here.
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>regards,
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