>Been there, done that. The best way, if you really want to subclass a FFC class, is to physically copy the FFC classlib into the directory where your classes are, and subclass your classes off that one. That way all of the above pathing issues vanish.

And while you are at it, redefine the classes of the _ffc to a layer of (empty) subclasses of vfp base classes, just in case you want to set things like .font or add a property to all classes...

my 0.02 EUR

thomas