>I know public variables are to be used sparingly. Due to this I haven't used them much and know even less about them.
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>I know that a public variable can get stomped on at any point in an application, since it's public, but does that also mean it can get stomped on by another user in a multi-user application?
As others already said: They cannot be stomped by another user.
But here's an advice: Declare such variables PRIVATE in the MAIN program. If you're using scope-denominators, use the letter g, indicating it's a global (rather than a public) variable. E.g. goMainWindow would be a nice variable name for an object reference to the main window.
private goMainWindow
goMainWindow = NULL
do form MainWindow name goMainWindow
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