Ed probably meant in a procedure library or an application-wide class...
Joe
>But I can't subclass a DE. So would I need to put the generic code in one of the form methods which, unfortunately, fires after the DE events?
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>>You can have generic method to contain all settings. I guess that private DS folks fire it from DE.Beforeopentables event.
Joseph C. Kempel
Systems Analyst/Programmer
JNC