>>>>I know this may sound like heresy to some, but I make extensive use of VFP's ability to execute &-macro defined command lines. This is an extremely powerful feature that sets VFP apart from any other language I know of.
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>>>Just for debate's sake, could you give an example of one of these uses? I have yet to see a good one...
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>>I use this to build a SQL statement to work out the maximum column widths of data in a grid - as it's generic the SQL has to be built for each column in the grid depending on the data type.
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>>Select max(_screen.Textwidth(column1))), ;
>>max(_screen.TextWidth(Transform(column2)), ;
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>>etc.
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>There's no macro expansion in your above code.

Yes I know. That was an example of the code that I build up into a string then & it.

The point is that as you don't know what will be in the grid's columns until it is in-situ on a form the code in the baseclass has to be generic.