Hi Paul

After posting this thread I began experimenting some more and came up with this same idea. I already have an application object (goApp) so I can easily add it there.

Thanks
Simon


>>I understand how to get a reference to the highest level container by moving up the container heirarchy but what I am looking for is suggestions for the fastest method to obtain this object reference to the highest level container. It will be called often in the application so I want the fastest technique.
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>Can you just do it once, and store that highest level container refernce to a well-known location so that you don't need to do it again?
>Some people have an application object that is always there (goAPP) on a public variable.
>Some people use ADDPROPERTY() to _SCREEN to store well known global references.
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>We have a goEnvironment object that handles this kind of thing, first time it goes and finds out and after that it uses internal property references.