>>>>I need help to call a function on the main form from within a subform (datasheet)
>>>>
>>>>Thank You.
>>>>
>>>>Mathias
>>>Ooops. Is this solely access or you mean VFP forms ?
>>>Cetin
>>
>>It's really Access. But how do you achieve that in VFP? I might get a clue.
>>
>>Mathias
>Mathias,
>Good my Access knowledge is near 0, for VFP can help. The easiest way to make a form PEM (prop.event,method) accessible from anywhere is to activate the form with a name clause :
>do form myform name somename linked
>Somename is now an object ref to form throughout the app. It's released as form is released (or Form is released as it's released).
>There are other ways too (as someone said - you could do it in VFP in at least three ways or cannot do at all). ie: _screen.forms collection hold object refs to form(set)s.
>Cetin

I know just enough Access97 to know that the answer will look different from vfp syntax, but not enough to know the answer.

When I'm stuck programming in Access, I occasionally come here to ask general questions about SQL that might be of interest to vfp programmers. Even with SQL, I often have to translate the answers. General questions about relational databases should also be all right. Questions that compare vfp with Access would be all right, except that those questions are asked so often that people here get tired of hearing them. I would not ask anything specific to Access, because it will annoy people in this FoxPro forum. That means anything about Access controls, procedures, or classes.

I have not yet found a good Access forum. But I haven't looked very hard. I would like to hear about it if you find one. I occasionally post on "Access All Areas" (http://www.wolf-uk.com/) but it only gets a few posts a day and is unlikely to generate correct answers to tough questions. Since your question sounds more basic, it might get answered there.