Pavel,

>For using this function, I must first select some objects in the
>Designer. But I have no selected objects, so it is useless. Likewise
>is the AMOUSEOBJ() function as it needs the mouse pointer over certain
>object. Selecting objects or positioning the mouse bothers me - there
>must be simpler way - after all VFP knows everything about the object
>being edited, just to find the way into it ...

As Dan said use the optional 2nd parameter to aselobj()

>I have no problem to get the name of the method being edited, but its
>characteristics :-(((

Once you have the aselobj() created reference use AMEMBERS() to find the visibility of the methods

aselobj( lax, 1 )
? amembers( lay, lax[1], 1, "PHGNUIB#" )