Oh, I understand the reasons, it's just that it can be misleading to see your subclass show the LPARAMETERS and xxx = vNewVal code when the Parent class might have entirely different code. This is unlike any other custom method.

>John,
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>No it's a feature. Your methods work just like the VFP ones do. If you edit a keypress the lparameters statement is there for you already. IN VFP 6 your added methods work the same way. If you don't want to override the behavior then just leave it alone.