>>>>Newobject() with 2nd parameter
>>>>con:
>>>>- if you move a class, all the newobject() calls need to be edited (or you should use a factory)
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>>>Not really -- if you add the visual class to a project, then in the parameter only specify the name of the file and not the path. The visual class will be part of the built application and will be found regardless of the file location at build time.
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>>But if you move the class into another library (say you saw the need to reorganize your libs because a select few grew too much), you still have to hunt it down in each newobject() call and put the name of the new classlib.The path is not relevant here - it's quite likely to remain the same, or be completely absent.
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>Agreed on the path, but would that not be true for both; that is, the moving of the class into another lib? When moving you have to update the references anywhere used -- forms, other classes, etc.

For createobject(), you don't. But for contained objects, oh yes - you pretty much have to hack the ?cx files to get the references right.