jonathan wrote: > > le 2001/10/17 17:12, Robert Covington à artlythere@... a écrit : > > > Why also would you want to have a handle to a record containing a handle? > > this is snipped. and edited. there may be children reading. > in fact i have great lists of stuff, and i put them in handles, and then > just keep the master handle. > > why handles? so that the memory manager can worry about shuffling them > around in memory, not me. > > thus: > > Would not : > > // > > dim record toto > > dim titi as rgnHandle > > end record > > > > dim gToto as toto > > myRect = gToto.titi..rgnBBox > > // > > work fine enough? > > make work fine, but in my case i need to access a: > myRect = gToto..titi..rgnBBox > and that seems to be all the difference... > > thanks anyway, Jonathan I think you will have to use an intermediate variable: dim rgnH AS ^^Region rgnH = gToto..titi myRect = rgnH..rgnBBox -- Cheers Alain ----------------------------------------------------- FB^3 in Europe: http://euro.futurebasic.com/ FB II Pouch: http://www.pixmix.com/FB/outils.html -----------------------------------------------------