>Hi,
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>I was wrong on this. I may have been thinking Java - if I remember you can do this with a nested class (if it's static) but that isn't much help in this case<g>
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>Chris's suggestion of passing in the outer class reference in the constructor seems like your best bet. Given that you can't achieve what you intended perhaps the nested class structure is not particularly useful in this instance?
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>Regards,
>Viv

Thanks for all the input and suggestions. I ended up just passing in the parent reference into the constructor of the child classes I instantiate inside the main class. It ultimately gives me the functionality I wanted.