>Steve,
>
>Are you sure?
>
>Let's say I have code in a procedure file:
>

>FUNCTION DEFINECOLUMNCLASS()
>
>DEFINE CLASS myColumn AS column
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>RETURN
>

>
>Now I add the class to my grid.
>

>SET PROCEDURE TO DEFINEFUNCTIONS ADDITIVE
>DO DEFINECOLUMNCLASS
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>this.AddObject( "newcolumn","myColumn" )
>
>RETURN
>

>
>How does Fox know that there is a defined class called "myColumn"?
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>Something is in memory that either contains the class definition or points to the function that created the class definition that Fox recognizes as myColumn.
>
>How do I find out if that something exists?
>
>Regards,

I was doing something similar the other day and found that my problem was simply scope. I executed a method to define a class and the definition was lost when the method closed. Don't know if that helps but good luck.