>>>>>>>>>>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.
True but I will still need to be able to create SomeMethod at run-time.
I had hoped to be able to do something like
AddMethod(fieldname+"_assign",cFileName) with the code for "cFilename" being code generated at run-time as well.
I guess the fundamental question is "can I add a method at run-time?"