>>This works, but only if you're using the development version of VFP to run ypour code - you can't do this directly from a compiled .EXE, since there's no built-in mechanism to convert the text to a compiled form.
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>>One 'trick' here is to use CodeBlock(), which provides an interpreter that can be included in the compiled application and used to execute the code built on the fly.
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>Ed,
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>Could you please explain the CodeBlock() you mentioned?
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>Thanks a lot!
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>Ben

CodeBlock is a public domain utility written by Randy Pearson that basically takes a program, whether from a text file, memo field, or a string, and runs it line by line using Macro Expansion (&). It allows for many controls structures like IF..ENFIF, DO WHILE etc, that would normally be impossible with plain macro expansion.

It is necessary if you want to store method code in a memo field for whatever reason, and run it in your program. This is because, as Ed mentioned, VFP exes don't have the ability to compile source code into object code.

This ability doesn't change the fact that the original question should probably be handled with classes instead of dynamically adding and compiling code.