Thanks for the suggestion. Vartype() works just as good and I don't have to remember the if statement each time I subclass.


>>Pcount() in this context seems to be useless. If I pass nothing to a method that passes an empty parameter down the tree, it seems it should still be passing nothing.
>
>When your method receives no parameters, it still creates a tcParm variable with the value .F., so DODEFAULT(tcParm) is equivalent to DODEFAULT(.F.).
>
>You could code around this, like:
>

IF PCOUNT() = 0
>    DODEFAULT()
>ELSE
>    DODEFAULT(tcParm)
>ENDIF