Hi, Kevin.

>So if I understand this then, the only benefit from using the Empty
>class with SCATTER is the ability to add properties. There is no way
>to add methods?

There's no way to add methods to an Empty object. What you could do though is something like this (working with your sample code):

CLEAR ALL

SELECT 0
USE MyTable

oMyRec = CREATEOBJECT("SomeClass")
SCATTER NAME oMyRec MEMO ADDITIVE

? oMyRec.Caption
? oMyRec.Test()


DEFINE CLASS SomeClass AS Session

  PROCEDURE Test()
    RETURN "It works"
  ENDPROC

ENDDEFINE

Note that "SomeClass" is deriving from the Session baseclass (it could be anything else but Empty), and the SCATTER is making use of its ADDITIVE class (introduced in VFP 8). That way you can "scatter" data to an existent object (which in this case has all the methods that you want).

HTH