Ken....

...... Some of the most succesful VFP apps are horribly written from an academic or ideal OOP standpoint - but doggone it - they work and are making someobody money.

Your last post was really excellent and encourageing!!! Thank you for it. I do want to ask you this, however, and I promise you I am not being a smart body part, in light of your above statement how can you then justify canning someone that works for you and uses a private variable in their code? :)

Tom Gahagan
REST