Hi David,

I should have checked version 6 help, but installing version 7 destroys version 6 help (or, at least installing the library does), and I didn't want to go and get it to put it back on.

I was surprised when I tried your code and it worked, but rest assured, it did work. I guess it's just another one of those little Microsoft Help Mysteries.

Alan

>Alan,
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>VFP6 help file shows: Returns the text of the specified method. Available at design time and run time.
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>I don't have 7 or 8 available here, but the earlier test code so far in this thread was done in 8. The last couple of posts were tested in 6.
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>ReadMethod is simply pulling the content of the memo field of the classlib from the copy in memory so I'm not sure why it's listing in the online VFP7 and VFP8 help files as designtime only.
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>>Right up to VFP8, here's what it says in my help file for ReadMethod():
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Returns the text of the specified method. Available at design time.