Jason,

Josh's ideas are all well spoken. If you have VFP 6, you can get an idea of what he means by looking in the \FFC subdirectory of your VFP install directory, particularly the class library "_base.VCX".

One thing to keep in mind as well, on the subject of forms. Controls are simple in that you can often subclass them only once and end up using the subclass. For instance, if you create _CommandButton, to which you add your own features, you will probably end up using _CommandButton in many places w/o subclassing it further. This is almost never the case with forms. It's a good idea to create "MyFirstFormClass", and then subclass your specialty forms from there, such as the form that users use to launch reports, the form that users enter system options on, the form that users do 1:M on, etc.

Hope this helps and welcome to the wonderful world of OOP!