>>>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.
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>>>How about "\VCXNAME.VCX" $ SET('CLASSLIB')
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>>But then your factory can know not only the name of the class to use, but the location of the classlib as well - it can be stored in factory.dbf. So you only need to know the name and location of the class once, when you create the record in factory.dbf.
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>Absolutely. That's the point of the abstract factory.

And (don't you feel the deja vu creeping in?) the difference between abstract factory and a concrete factory is?

>> No Set ClassLib/Procedure at all.
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>The factory would have to issue these.

If factory uses newobject() then it doesn't need these at all. Both lists can remain empty.

I see a different problem with factory: it returns an object, which then needs to be assigned to something. It can't replace this.addobject() and this.newobject(), unless we pass This as a parameter. Does your factory do that?