Erik-

>I do not know if VFP 8 will have this, but the "Clipboard" toolbox as they have it in Visual Studio .NET would be neat and helpful here. So you dont have to retype the whole object each time (which you are ofcoz trying to avoid with WITH/ENDWITH) and don't have to rely on Copy/Paste.

Have you tried the object list in the right-click menu of the method code window? That's a nice drill-down to an object.

In replying, I realized that since I've been focusing on my class design, I rarely have occassion any more to refer to gnarly object paths. I guess my object references have all gotten very shallow. "Sibling" objects don't touch each other, but work through their parent.