Thank you Sergey,

for some strange reason I tried the whole time to put "This" in brackets - SCATTER NAME (This) ADDITIVE - and it didn't work.

Lerner

>Hi Alex,
>
>Try

DEFINE CLASS myclass as custom
>   PROCEDURE Init
>   USE mytable
>   SCATTER NAME This ADDITIVE
>ENDDEFINE
>

>
>>Is it in some way possible to use SCATTER NAME ADDITIVE in a method of an object to add properties to this very object?
>>
>>What I actually want is an object that has some certain properties and loads the rest from a dbf in its INIT - method.
>>
>>Sure, there are other possibilities, but with SCATTER NAME ADDITIVE it would be the most elegant one... Are there any known tricks?