Hi Naomi,
Aselobj() does give me the name of the VCX, but not the name of the method being edited. Sergy has an example of using _wontop() that looks promising.

Gary

>>Hi,
>>I'm playing with a builder and I'm trying to figure out how to determine the currently being edited method in a VCX.
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>>I basically want to copy all the method code to _cliptext, dink with it and replace the method code with the new and hopefully improved code.
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>>KEYBOARDing ctrl+a, ctrl+c seems to erase the method code, which I'd rather not do if possible. I was thinking some readmethod() and writemethod() might work, but I don't know how to get the name of the method programmatically.
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>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Gary
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>Gary,
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>See message # 1406938