: >>How do you execute the default behaviour of a method in the immedate : parent of an object. Is this the :: usage? : > : >DODEFAULT() : This is a 5.0 command, what I need is a way of performing the same thing in : VFP3.0. Mark - you were right in your original q. this is what the :: is used for btw it is also usefull in VFP if you want to call a specific class in the hirarchy (if you have more than one level of inharitance) Arnon