from the help file on calling methods:
Methods that return values and are used in expressions must end in open and closed parentheses. For example, the following statement sets the caption of a form to the value returned from the user-defined method GetNewCaption:

Form1.Caption = Form1.GetNewCaption( )

it looks as though you could return .f. from MyMethod and skip that code...

>Don't ask me why I think this so kool, maybe because I never tried it before. But I did this one with the Scope Resolution Operator tonight & it worked! I think...
>
>if MyObject::MyMethod()
> ...
>endif
>
>I just thought it was a stand alone command that did not return a value!
>
>Simply Amazed,
>Tom