Calvin,

As Nadya mentioned, if you find yourself needing to skip the code in the class it's a strong indication that the class hierarchy design has some serious flaws.

You need to tell VFP explicitly that you are calling the method by using parens:

return basecust::Save()

Also note that nodefault does not do what you comment indicates. nodefault stops the VFP baseclass behavior from occuring. Since the VFP baseclass you are working with does not have a native Save() event there is nothing for nodefault to actually do.

Now by putting any code in the method of the grandchild class you are overwriting it and therefore preventing VFP from executing any code you've added to the parentclass or grandparentclass. DoDefault() is used to call into the code you are inheriting.

>I have a clase that is the third level in the class hier. I want to skip the processing in the second level class and execute the code in the base class for a particular purpose. However, the class generates a return value to the form.
>My code is:
>
>nodefault && SKIP PROCESSING IN CLASS ABOVE
>basecust::save && execute base class code.
>
>However basecust::save returns a +1 for success and a -1 for failure and I cant figure out how to get a return value from basecust::save. If I try :
>r=basecust::save VFP generates an error. Help.