>I can't say I like the idea of using just a variation of property names to distinguish state. Surely it would be cleaner to maintain two copies of the object - one for the original state and one to take changes. That would also tie in better with any requirement to also check against current database state....
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>That said, my VFP is too rusty to remember if there is a simple way of quickly checking whether all properties of two objects of the same type have equal values. If there *were* then unchanged objects would not need drilling into.....

COMPOBJ() function can be used to compare if object properties and property values are identical