>>>>>>>>>>>>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?"
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>You could do something like this in your SomeMethod:
>

>EXECSCRIPT(FILETOSTR([ProprtyNameHere.PRG]))
>

>And create your script and name it as the property you bound.
>I.e. if you bind a property named MyProperty save the script in MyProperty.PRG, then in SomeMethod:
>

>**** SomeMethod code:
>
>LOCAL laEventName[1]
>AEVENTS(laEventName,0)
>EXECSCRIPT(FILETOSTR(laEventName[1].Name+[.PRG]))
>

>never tested though :-)
Thanks Borislav, that might work.