Thanks Cetin (and Sergey).

I was completely missing the fact that NAME, used with ADDITIVE, could refer to some other (non-SCATTER...NAME) existing object rather than one of its own.


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>Jim,
>This is new in VFP8. If you have an object and scatter to it with additive you're dealing with it. An example exists for saving/restoring form properties.
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>USE (ThisForm.cRunPath+"FormProps")
>SCATTER NAME ThisForm ADDITIVE
>USE IN FormProps
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>If your record say has Class field it'd error since it's protected.
>Cetin