>Mike,
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>>Nope. If the method does IF ",VCXNAME.VCX," $ ','+SET('CLASSLIB')+',' it can be almost as fast.
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>Here I go again <g>
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>As you have more and more classlibs, that IF will become slower and slower, while NewObject should keep a relatively constant speed, for if we are not using classlibs and procedure files, there is nothing to open/close, so I am not sure. By the way, shouldn't you remove your commas? Set("Classlib") returns, for me, the full path of the library, like this "X:\FOXV\CLASSES\SKYFORMS.VCX ALIAS SKYFORMS, X:\FOXV\CLASSES\SKYCLASSES.VCX ALIAS SKYCLASSES". You can see that with only 2 classlibraries open the string is already quite long, and as you should not close any classlib open for what I said before, you might end up with a huge string to scan.

If newobject closes all open classlibs and then reopens them that has to be slower than scanning a string, especially if they're not compiled in an exe/app.

Picky, picky! ;) I'm only trying to use some pseudo pseudocode to say "detect if the specified vcx file name is already opened/available/whatever" which in this case is easier said in code.

How about "\VCXNAME.VCX" $ SET('CLASSLIB')