Michael,

What kind of inconsistency do you see? There really isn't a problem doing any of this, it's just a design concern once you tie an object to another that it is a permanent thing. You might look at the Design Patterns book for some ideas on how to reduce the impact on your design.

>Thanks for writing. That works. By passing the first object's "THIS" to the second, I can refer to the first object before its variable is created. However, in my situation, the results are inconsistent. Perhaps this is one of those "issues" to which you referred. Therefore, I'll just file this away for future reference.