>I'm trying to design a procedure/method that will determine all the parents (not the containers) of a control at run time.
>Example: If I:

>    define ctrBase as custom
>    define ctrSubClass as ctrBase
>    define ctrSubSubClass as ctrSubClass

>and drop ctrSubSubClass into a form. I want to be able to locate both ctrSubClass and ctrBase by passing ctrSubSubClass to some method/procedure.
>
>I can't even think of an approach.
>
>TIA

I may be off base here, but what the heck.

FUNCTION SomeFunction
LPARAMETERS oSomeClass

oSomeClass.Parent.Parent.PropertyOrMethod

Wouldn't the 1st parent be ctrSubClass and the 2nd parent be ctrBase?

But I may not fully understand what you mean by "locate" the parents of ctrSubSubClass.

Steve