>>I am trying to build a general "Search Form" class which will respond to any form that calls it. It will take paramters for a SQL-Select "from", "where", "order by", and # of grid columns to show.
>>
>>In a calling form, I added these properties:
>>rSearchTable
>>rSearchField
>>rSearchSort
>>rSearchGridCols
>>
>>The click event's method has some spaghetti and then:
>>OrdProc.rSearchTable = 'OrdProc_DonorInf1'
>>OrdProc.rSearchField = 'cName_Last'
>>OrdProc.rSearchSort = 'cDonor_No'
>>OrdProc.rSearchGridCols = 4
>>lfSearchForm.Show(1)
>>
>>The called form class also has the above properties.
>>How do I get the properties from the calling form into the properties of the called form class?
>
>Add these properties to the called [Search] form class then populate them using the followint code in the calliong form click:
>with lfSearchForm
> .rSearchTable = 'OrdProc_DonorInf1'
> .rSearchField = 'cName_Last'
> .rSearchSort = 'cDonor_No'
> .rSearchGridCols = 4
> .Show(1)
>endwith

Thanks for the with...endwith information. I already had the properties defined in the called Search Form, but it still doesn't seem to work unless I already have the table SELECTed before the code acutally fires. So I put a SELECT MYTABLE in the Init method of the form and it works now.