>Unfortunately, the parent class is one of the FFC classes. I don't want to muck with it at
>all.
Yes, I agree that it is preferable to avoid this.
In this case, you could search for the grandparent and hardcode it.
Also, I am just seeing that according to the help, aclass() is supposed to give you the class names in the inheritance. Perhaps you can obtain the grandparent with this function.
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