Hey that's not a bad idea. I am not actually using SYS(2015) type names, but you can't be too careful.

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>John, I don't know if you read my post to Alex but the code I posted would more or less simulate a situation where we encounter the same problem with the "too many names used" exception dialog. It seems like VFP 7.0 and before would only allow 64366 (or something like that) unique object names. We had to be a little more creatative on how we named our objects instead of using sys(2015). This may be a direction for you to look??
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