>Scatter name is powerfull but the obhject it created doesn't expose an Addproperty() method whilst empty does. Prior to VFP8 I'm creating other ligthweight objects such as line,relation,session to pass parameters 'cargoed' in an object. ie:
>
>loParms = createobject('Empty')
>loParms.Addproperty('StartDate', ...)
>...
>loParms.EndDate = ...
>loParms.Country = ...
>...
>loRetObj = loCusUtils.MyCustomersToFollowup(loParms)
>

Cetin,
The Empty class doesn't expose an AddProperty method either. Scatter Name actually gives you an instance of the Empty class. You have to use the AddProperty() function to add anything to it. Prior to VFP 8, I believe you had to use Ken Levy's AddProp FLL to do this.

Regards.