Yes.
The children classes are running in the same app.
I think that I'm needing to implement "model view controller" pattern design.

Do you have some MVC's example in VFP?

T.I.A.

>Are those "children" running within the same app? If so:
>Keep the value you read in a property of custom oApp object. In init of your class it checks oApp.savedvalue. If it exists use it else do the select and populate. Or your class init code could do the select in init if it's not something time consuming (ie: over network, after intensive calculations etc).
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>If you want to make that available to other application (even run on other stations) then you would need some kind of messaging between them. With VFP not a trivial task and likely you'd end up with saving the value to a shared file so others can read.
>Cetin