Right up to VFP8, here's what it says in my help file for ReadMethod():

Returns the text of the specified method. Available at design time.

Alan

>Alan,
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>ReadMethod is documented to work at runtime. WriteMethod is the only one that is designtime only.
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>>For the record, david's ReadMethod attempt also works. I'm not sure why since I was one of those who believed the docs (until today) that readmethod and writemethod were only available in design mode.