>>I have a moment of brain shortage, right now I can't see the forest for all the trees. Is it possible from within an object to know what is the name it's instantiated as? Given this code
>>
>>

>>loCountries = NewObject('SqlTable','SQL.vcx')

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>>In this case I want the class SqlTable to understand that it's instantiated as loCountries. I am building a rather complicated generic class to work with SQL tables. My idea is that if I call the object for instance loCountries, my class can be smart enough to know that I want it to connect to the SQL table called Countries.
>
>You can use AINSTANCE, but not in Init, you should call dedicated method.
>after the Init of the class.
>

>CLEAR
>test = CREATEOBJECT([TestMe])
>test.CheckInstance()
>
>DEFINE CLASS TestMe AS Custom
>
>
>
>  PROCEDURE Init
>****        this.CheckInstance()
>  ENDPROC 
>  
>  PROCEDURE CheckInstance
>      AINSTANCE(aVars,[TestMe])
>      DISPLAY MEMORY  LIKE aVars
>  ENDPROC 
>  
>  
>ENDDEFINE
>

O.K something new :)

But:
(snip)
Only class instances assigned to variables and array elements with CREATEOBJECT( ) or NEWOBJECT( ) are placed into the array.
(/snip)
So properties and collections will be ignored.