>Lutz,
>
>Thank you very much for the detailed reply and help!

On top of what's been said here, yes you can call an object's method as a function, we do that a lot. Assume you have a PathHelper class, and then, for example

lcPath=oPathHelper.getAppHomePath()

To have that object accessible, make it a global variable, or, if you also want to reduce the number of global variables, set it as a property of one global object:

oApp.NewObject("oPathHelper", "pathhelper", "helpers.vcx")

lcPath=oApp.oPathHelper.getAppHomePath()

I've seen this done many times, and I did it too.