Hi Mike:

>I am writing a non-visual program in which I want to make use of the
>custom rules that I've setup. This is what I have so far for the instantiation:
>
>loCDE = CREATEOBJECT( 'cmDataEnvironmentCustom' )
>loCDE.addcursor( 'BCSSettings', 'curBCSSettings' )
>loBCSSettings = loCDE.getcursor( 'BCSSettings' )
>loBCSSettings.addrule( 'RuleBCSSettings' )

The following code should help. The trick is to add the rule class as an object to the cursor object itself. The cursor object then becomes the rule class's "parent". Then simply call the cursor object's AddRule method and that in turn adds the rule to the cursor object's aRule collection.

loCde = CREATEOBJECT('cmDataEnvironmentCustom')
loBCSSettings = loCDE.addCursor('BCSSettings', 'curBCSSettings') && You get a cursor reference.

* You can check to ensure that there isn't already a rule of the same name added to the cursor.
IF NOT PEMSTATUS(loBCSSettings, 'RuleBCSSettings', 5)
  WITH loBCSSettings
    .AddObject('oRuleBCSSettings', 'RuleBCSSettings')
    .AddRule(.oRuleBCSSettings)
  ENDWITH
ENDIF 

HTH

Regards,