Dragan --

However, as I noted, I specifically don't want an object reference. What I want is to make a copy of all the values in the collection so that later I can compare those values to the current values. Saving an object reference ... means the two are always identical.



>>I'm having problems working with Collections (not surprisingly, since this is my very first time creating a collection).
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>>I have a form with a collection named .Fields .... This.Fields (I've inherited this from somebody else). Each item in This.Fields is an object with the same simple list of properties.
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>>I want to copy the entire collection into an object I've created called loProperties. Now, I don't want to copy an object reference, since my goal is to later compare the values in This.Fields with loProperties.Fields. to see which have changed.
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>>My code to do this follows. When done, however, loProperties.Fields(1) does not have the same list of properties as This.Fields(1) --- it actually looks like a collection itself.
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>>Can anybody identify what I'm doing wrong here? (Note: loFields looks like the collection I would expect ... but loProperties.Fields doesn't)
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>You seem to want to copy members from one collection to another, with properties, eh? Assuming you tried the obvious (setting loFields=this.fields, or adding references to members of this.fields to loFields) and you really have to clone each object, then... see what I'd rather do: have a reference to the object you're copying. Makes debugging easier. Also, getpem() is easier than eval().
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	loFields = Createobject("Collection")
>>	For lnJ = 1 To This.Fields.Count
>>		m.loData = Createobject("Empty")
>   loSourceObject=This.Fields.item(lnJ)
>>		Amembers(laFieldMembers, loSourceObject)
>>		For Each lcFieldMem In laFieldMembers)
>>			AddProperty(m.loData, lcFieldMem, getpem(loSourceObject, lcFieldMem))
>>		Endfor
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>>		loFields.Add(m.loData)
>>	Next lnJ
>>	AddProperty (loProperties, 'Fields', loFields)
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