>>One more question if I may. I am calling both of these in the Data Enviornment Load Tables event. If I don't I get errors because the control source for the text boxes, etc. do not exist. Calling the prgs from there has me a bit worried although it seems to work ok so far. Any thoughts?
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>You can do it in form's .load(), though then any objects of the form you may need are still not instantiated. As a legal workaround, you can do it in form's .init(), you only have to design the form with .BindControls=.f., and then in .init(), when you're done with opening tables, creating cursors etc, set it to .t. (too bad it's made to work only once - there are times when unbinding controls on a flip of a switch would be cool ;).

Blast it, I forgot about .BindControls=.f. I'll move them back to the init where they were before the crash.

We have a way of unbinding the controls. We added a property to all data object classes that holds the source. After the form loads we call a prg that then copies the source to the ControlSource. That prg can also clear the contolsource of all objects based on a flag in another property common to all classes. Doing this allows us to do some interesting things when the user is searching for data.

Thanks again.