Sandy,
The New Prop/Method only applies to the outermost object/class in the designers. You could create your class giving it the methods/props, then do all of the work on the methods on an object of that kind in the form designer, then SaveAs back out over the top of the class. It might speed your development a little that way.
>That's what I was in the process of trying, but I thought I could get everything to check out on a form first and then do a save as into a class but I get it now.