>>>I need to pass a cursor that resides in a form with data session set to private to another form. I know it kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a DS that's private and wanting to do this but I have the need nonetheless. I know I can't pass a whole cursor as a parameter (w/o using ADO?) but is there another way?
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>>Sure - pass the data session ID and alias as parameters, and do something like:
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>>LPARAMETERS nDataSessionID, cAlias
>>* Note - no error checking. I'd add it.
>>LOCAL nMyDataSessionAtStart
>>nMyDataSessionAtStart = SET('DATASESSION')
>>SET DATASESSION TO nDataSessionID
>>LOCAL cDBFReference
>>cDBFReference = DBF(cAlias)
>>SET DATASESSION TO nMyDataSessionAtStart
>>USE (cDBFReference) AGAIN SHARED IN 0 ALIAS WhatEver
>Wouldn't this cause problems if we have some data bound controls ???

Not unless one of the sessions needed exclusive use of the cursor; you can open a table or cursor several times without difficulties. The record pointers move independently of each other, so it won't cause a form with another 'use' of the cursor to shft records unexpectedly. This is no different than having two datasessions open the same table...