>>SYS(1272) is I believe what you are looking for: it returns the object (not class hierarchy of the object reference.
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>>If you had a form whose name property was Form1, that had a container on it (container1) that had a commandbutton on it (command1), sys(1270,{object references to command1}) would return the string form1.container1.command1
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>Rick,
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>I don't think this is correct. SYS(1270) does not return any stroing at all, it returns an object reference.

I meant 1272 - typo on my part < g >. As the beginning of my message said SYS(1272) is what is needed:

sys(1270,{object references to command1})

Thanks for catching that Jim!