>I can't set the "talk" status to off. I used the debugger to look for the reason. I found a very strange thing. When I set the datasession property of a form to private, the talk status will change to 'on' automatically. Although I wrote a command 'set talk off' into activate method, the program still ignored my command.
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>Did I need to do something when I set to private datasession or it is a bug (really?)?
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>Any idea?
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>Sunny

Sunny,

Making form's datasession property to 1-private ignores settings which were declared outside the form. What you will do is, re-issue all SET commands at Load Event property.