>>>>>>>>>Is it possible to add an assign method to a class at run-time? If yes, will a scatter command execute it?
>>>>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>Trevor
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Version of VFP?
>>>>>>>VFP 9 SP1
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You could BINDEVENT() to the property, but I don't see any reason not to have ASSIGN method in your class. Can you tell us more?
>>>>>I have written a class that does a generic data conversion from fox dbf's to an sql backend. The only thing they have in common is the field name.
>>>>
>>>>That is great, but why you don't want to have ASSIGN method in that class?
>>>I don't know the names of the fields until run-time
>>
>>OK, you don't know the names, but what you want to do in that ASSIGN?
>>You easily can have:
>>

>>this.Property = [Something]
>>

>>w.o having ASSIGN method.
>Yes I understand. There are lots of other ways to solve this problem I was just enquiring whether it was possible to add an assign method to a class at run-time.

You can, uh, not exactly ADD a code, but if you BINDEVENT():

BINDEVENT(this,[SomeProperty],this,[SomeMethod])

the code in SomeMethod will be called every time SomeProperty chenges its value.