>>>>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.
>>
>>Thanks Hilmar,
>>that did it. Took a little while to work out the kinks, but it works.
>
>OK, great. It was precisely the part of "working out the kinks" which I preferred to leave as an "exercise to the reader" <g> - I suppose you have to get the class name, and then use macro substitution.

Correct,