>Mike,
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>That is weird... I don't know why it does that. Try Word.Application, it lets you expand it and see all the methods right away. I don't know why with ie it is so finaky.
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>Also, have you tried that object browser?
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>BOb

Hi Bob,

Well, it's interesting if Word behaves as you describe, but that doesn't do me much good if I'm more interested in the WebBrowser. I'll bet there are similar problems for other flavors of COM objects, but it will take a while to gather the statistics. For starters, let's consider the specific case of IE/WebBrowser. If it's not too much to ask, would you mind running the exact sequence of tests that I posted, so we can be reasonably scientific about this? I also asked Dragan to do that, and I would ask anyone else who thinks the behavior is variable to do this also.

No, I haven't yet played with the Object Browser, because it doesn't seem to have much relevance to the problem at hand, which is to examine an instance of a live object, not a static class definition. If I understand the concept correctly, the term "Object Browser" really seems like a misnomer for something that would be more aptly named a "Class Browser".

Barring any resolution of the problems I've seen in VFP's Debugger, the next logical thing to investigate might be the (groan) VB6 debugger, or (gasp) the VC++ debugger. Since I am completely unfamiliar and otherwise uninterested in those environments, I would vastly prefer to solve this with VFP.

Mike