>I have an imaging OCX that wants a "variant variable" in order to return certain information - in VB the command is: > >DIM as variant > >any way to recreate that in VFP 5 - could a small C++ app perform that function? > >Thanks >Jay Variants are variables in FP. Probably later it has something like "set varname = object.retval", in VFP varname = object.retval. Cetin