I follow you and thanks for your reply. I'm not sure how to go about reblessing the object though.

As i see it i could:

• Have the constructor call the method to determine the class, and immediately rebless the object as some other class. The problem i see here is that now the parent class has to have knowledge of it's child classes which i think breaks inheritance?
• Or i could interrogate the type in the main script and create a clone of a different (sub)class. This seems inefficient to me and it seems like i'm bringing the code out of the classes and into the main script.

Am i needlessly overcomplicating things?

I found this code: Stack Overflow But to be honest i'm having real trouble following what the user is doing here!

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