Interesting answer...

You answered my question, but indirectly. I could instanciate my "base class" and then save as class.

I find it easier to create base classes programatically, but find forms design much easier in the form designer.

Thanks

Glenn

>>Can a form be designed in the form designer which is based upon a programmatic class? If so how is it accomplished?
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>>Glenn
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>Interesting question... but what's the point?
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>If you are in the design mode you have VFP opened.
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>You can create 'template' forms and save them in your project manager for later use, even if they are never called within the executable. Or, after developing your 'template' forms, you can detach them from the project, and into your templates form directory, so they won't compile into the executable. Then, they are sort of like 'objects', in as much as a copy could be moved into a project's forms subdirectory and added to the project manager. If you made a class of a form you could use the class browser to generate the code that expresses the form. Executing the code, however, would create an active form, not a form in the design mode. To use the class code to generate a form in the design mode would require code replicating the functions of VFP itself, which is why I asked "What's the point?"
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>JLK