Gary,

I sure appreciated you taking the time to review my code/thoughts.

>>I personally have never used a VCX for non-visual classes. I would always use a .PRG for a non visual class.<<

Just to make sure we are on the same page, you are saying you use code like the following for the non-visual .prg class, corret?

DEFINE CLASS CopyThis AS Custom

  PROCEDURE CopyItem
  * Code here
  ENDPROC

  PROCEDURE Encrypt
  * Code here
  ENDPROC

  PROCEDURE Decrypt
  * Code here
  ENDPROC

ENDDEFINE

>>You have way more flexibility IMHO.<<

Can you expand on this just a little - what you mean by more flexibility (it does look like the code is easier to maintain like this).

Mel Cummings