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>>> With the new class, when calling TEST_SAVE2. Do You also get the
>>> the handle shown called via the Helper-Class and "Nope" when called directly?
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>> Yes.
>>
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>You see. There is *no* information been added or taken away. In both cases I do nothing more than query "oPicture.Handle" the only difference is that in one case I hand oPicture over to a method in another class (does not work if I do this in the same class, I tried) as a parameter and query it there.
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>And whatever bugs I might have in my code, with my understanding of oo-programming this thing should not make any difference, right (at least in this particular constellation).

When everything fails, how about creating new class (may be prg based), and copy method by method until it breakes? That usually helps in such mysterious cases...