Hi, Leroy!

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The parent of the calling command button has a cMystate Property
Do I put that into the reference?
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Yes, great idea!

* putting an object reference into a variable
* (in this case the reference of the parent of the command button
*  this parent has the cMyState property)
loObject = This.Parent
oMyState = Createobject('GetState', loObject)
...

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How would I create an object that has "cMyState" as a property.
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Look at this:

* create an object of any class
* Note: "Relation" class is a flyweight, that's why it's more suitable instead of container
*       or other more weighty classes!
loObject = NEWOBJECT( "Relation" )
* adding the wished property
loObject.AddProperty( "cMyState" )
oMyState = Createobject('GetState', loObject)
...