>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.
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>So Borislav's answer is one way to get it there. Hilmar's won't work though.
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>>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
>>
>>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.
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>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.
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>I have the class defined in a prg which runs once on the startup of the app.
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>Prg code
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>

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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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>

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>I put two lines of code under the click
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>click code
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>

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

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>What have I done wrong?
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>Thanks for your patience

Where do you set left ant top properties of your marker? Also use NewObject method and add a third parameter with the name of prg file where you put your class definition. Or make sure your program is in SET('PROCEDURE')

BTW, why did you define it in a program? Do you read a discussion here about advantages of prg based classes? < g >