Hello David,

Oops, you are correct. This is actually one of the reasons SCATTER works better than ADDPROPERTY() for this situation.

Here is a small example showing the problem of using a name field while using ADDPROPERTY().

Thanks for correcting me!

create cursor test (testID i, name c(20), height n(5,2))

oTest = createObject("oRecord","test")

? oTest.ofields.name
oTest.ofields.name = "Smith"
? oTest.oFields.name    && crash and burn here...we have renamed the object

define class oRecord as custom

    procedure init
    lparameters lcAlias
        local laFields, lnFields, i
        dimension lafields[1]
        this.addobject("oFields","dfields")

        select (lcAlias)
        lnfields = afields(laFields)
        for i = 1 to lnfields   && add property for each field to custom object
            this.ofields.addproperty(laFields[i,1]) 
            ? lafields(i, 1)
        next i

    endproc

enddefine

define class dFields as custom

enddefine

>Hi Steve,
>The object created by SCATTER NAME has no properties at all other than the field names. So having a field "Name" works ok.
>As far as I know every other Fox object has a "name" property.
>