>I have defined a class based on container whose methods need to refer very often to Codemine cursor objects which were created during thisform.load(), before the container class was instantiated.
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>In order to have easy access to intellisense at development time, I have added a copy of the cursor classes to the container object. At runtime however, I don;t really want those cursor classes to become instantiated at all. Instead I want to create a property of the container with the same name to hold a reference to the cursor objects, which will have already been created by that time.
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>I thought of returning .F. from the cursor init, but for some reason the cursor objects appear before their init runs.
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>The question is how to delete objects placed in a container before they are initialized?
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>TIA,
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>Alex

Return .f. from Init should prevent instantiation. Are you sure you're not returning .t. earlier? Also you may try using removeobject to remove them after they were instantiated.