>Hi
>
>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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>Thanks,
>Simon

Simon,
Check sys(1272,oObject). It gives you full hierarchy. For an object where its outermost object is the form itself it returns the hierarchy beginning with form's name. You could easily stuff it with thisform.
Cetin