Hello Ron,

thank you for your reply. I think what you mean is that $.x would be accessible in the class as part of a method but not directly. Therefore your first method will work of course but defeats a bit the idea that the object on creation reports its status. The second approach works exactly as it should. And I guess now I need to learn why. So you were absolutely right about the intention :).

Now I know what to learn, that is real progress!

Thx a lot!