Hi Paul,

In VFP8 and later you can use Empty object for parameter object. It doesn't have any PEMs.

oParam = CREATEOBJECT("Empty")

>
>Just wondering if your class example is similar to the kilofox example that i've added to my program for returning multiple values from a function using names parameters. It goes like this:
>
>called program:
>
>

>FUNCTION hg_variables ()
>LOCAL oParam
>**do some calculations and store values to rg1, rgc1, rg2, rgc2
>oParam = CREATEOBJECT("line")
>WITH oParam
>
>	.addproperty("Right1", rg1)
>	.addproperty("Right1cv", rgc1)
>	.addproperty("Right2", rg2)
>	.addproperty("Right2cv", rgc2)
>
>endwith
>RETURN oParam
>

>
>
>calling program:
>
>

>local oRetval, rg1, rg2, rgc1, rgc2
>oRetval = hg_variables()
>rg1 = oRetval.right1
>rgc1 = oRetval.right1cv
>rg2 = oRetval.right2
>rgc2 = oRetval.right2cv
>

>
>then when i need to use the variables (rg1, rgc1, rg2, rgc2), i just pass them as a parameter in a function.
>
>Is this similar to what you're describing? Is this cleaner (albeit more work) than using public variables? if so, i guess public variables is more lazy programming. :-)
>
>thanks,
>
>Paul