In order for any object in VFP to have a visible presence in the GUI it must be a form or contained object in either a form or _screen.

So Borislav's answer is one way to get it there. Hilmar's won't work though.

>Okay, what have I done wrong with this? The little poop won't display for me.
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>Define Class marker As Shape OF _base
> Height = 25
> Width = 25
> Curvature = 90
> BackColor = 255
> BackStyle = 0
>Enddefine
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>marker.show
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No luck so far. This my first attempt to build a class this way and use it. Here is the situation.

I have a form. In the form is an image of a map. When a mouse click occurs on the map I want to place a shape on the map where the click occurs.

I have the class defined in a prg which runs once on the startup of the app.

Prg code

Define Class marker As Shape OF _base
	Height = 25
	Width = 25
	Curvature = 90
	BackColor = 255
	BackStyle = 0
Enddefine

I put two lines of code under the click

click code

Thisform.AddObject("marker", "Marker")
Thisform.marker.Visible = .t.

What have I done wrong?

Thanks for your patience