From the top of my head, and I was never clear enough to work without some hints in the doc....

>So I have a class, vsflex_cursor of vsflex_lite.vcx that I want to copy. It is an OleClass.

AFAIR OleClass was the identifier/pointer to the COM object either wrapped (OLEContainer, class name just OLEControl ?) or bound (OLEBoundControl)
IIRC the basic COM object before instantiation is something more similar to a singleton for each machine (some things you can set , I remember a colour picker somewhere in the dyna-toools, and such settings were then "global", probably in the registry), but you cannot subclass and set subclassed instance properties without creating a new COM object with the registry entries.

The subclassing had to be done on the vfp container side, typically with set_on_xxx() method reaching down to the COM-object-instance created / copied and handled by OLEContainer, sometimes reading vfp properties named identically/similar if design needed inheritance for such property setting.

I think the behaviour is described either in Ricks book or Megafox, but it has been a long time since I had to walk these lines ;-)

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>I want to copy (not subclass) it, with the usual way being:
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>create classlib dummy
>add class vsflex_cursor of vsflex_lite to dummy
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>What I get is "Object class is invalid for this container."
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>This happens with all of OLE controls in the project.
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>Is this known behavior? A Google search brought up irrelevant hits based on the error message (other issues).
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>tia,
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>Hank