>>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
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>>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.
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>I'd be inclined to pass in parameter(s):
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>loCountries = NewObject('SqlTable','SQL.vcx', 'Countries', MyParam2, ... )
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>Or has already been suggested, set an object property after it's created.
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>In your sample code you may be working on a concrete method using Countries, so you want to use loCountries. But if in fact it's generic and you are generating the variable name, then there probably already is a parameter or property used to generate the variable name, so you could just pass that to the SQL object.
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>Something like that is likely to be simpler to maintain and more robust than deriving the variable name.

I decided to set a property which holds the name of the table. This makes more sense, since for some of the tables, especially for lookup, I create subclasses where the table name is set in the subclass. I also have a property for the database name since I don't store all the tables in one database. Sometimes you realize that what seemed like a good idea, wasn't so good after all.