>The more I think about this the more I come to agree with you and Mark.

It takes real integrity to change your mind publicly, Jim.

>This seems to be a weakness in the class designer only. This is not a problem if the subclass is defined in code at all.

Good point.

My goal in posting this behavior wasn't primarily to rank on VFP (much as I like to do that, of course), but to alert people about it.