>I am trying to create a class, based on Custom, to contain functions that may be called by many objects in one place. Is Custom the right class to base my class from? Where in the custom class would I code these functions? The end result I'm after is to create a global object reference (omycustomclass=CREATEOBJECT('mycustomclass') that contains all the common functions to be called from throughout my app. TIA

Custom is OK. If you use class designer then just add custom properties/events there. If you want to do it programmatically, then DEFINE CLASS will provide you all necessary options.