Bo --

VCX's are available at runtime? I didn't know that ... I'm interested in something that runs as part of my application, not at design time.

>Hi Jim,
>
>>Turns out, of course, that XMLToCursor still works -- but it does not include any properties that are for sub-classed objects -- which is what I'm really looking for.
>>
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>The _Memberdata property should be getting inherited from the base class. Unless it is getting overwritten. If you have access to the underlying class, you can still get at it's _Memberdata via the VCX table and the ParentClass property.
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>

>USE ("mybaseclasslib.vcx") ALIAS myclass IN SELECT("myclass")
>LOCATE FOR objname = This.ParentClass AND EMPTY(parent)
>IF FOUND()
>  lcMemberData=STREXTRACT(properties,"_memberdata = ",CHR(13))
>  IF LEFT(lcMemberData,1) = CHR(1)
>    lcMemberData = SUBSTR(lcMemberData,517+8+1)
>  ENDIF
>  XMLTOCURSOR(lcMemberData)
>  BROWSE LAST NOWAIT
>ENDIF
>USE IN SELECT("myclass")
>

>
>But, as you can see, this could go on and on. It may not be worth the effort in your case.