Thanks for the response...

I have checked and I have not added code to the subclassed form, the method name is there, whenever I run the form it does not find the code... Below, I have tried to be more specific...

The following is the relationship among the form/classes in question… I have a form class called 'frm' and a subclass to 'frm' is 'frmmaint' my form is called 'empl' and is based on the class 'frmmaint'. I added a method called 'AddFormNameToMenu' to the 'frm' class, and when I run my form 'empl' I receive the error message 'File AddFormNameToMenu.prg does not exist'. If I understand inheritance correctly, this method should be available in my form 'empl'. When I view the form properties for 'empl' I see the method 'AddFormNameToMenu' with the word 'Default'. I understand with the word 'default' by the method name means the form will use the code in the parent form. I have not added code to the method in my form. I have used the class browser to browse the class and confirmed the relationships between the forms. Which is... 'frm' is the parent class, 'frmmaint' is a subclass of 'frm' and my form called 'empl' is created on the class 'frmmaint'.

In an effort to debug this problem, I created another sub-class to frm called 'frmmaint2' and created a form based on 'frmmaint2' and the method is in the new form and works. I just can not determine why the form based on 'frmmaint', my production class, does not find the method. Could there be some kind of corruption that is causing the problem? If so, can it be repaired? If I had committed months of work and various forms were created I would not want to start over.

I'm just get started with Visual Fox...I hope this is not the "norm".

Thanks for your input

Gary