>>>In additition to Steve's information, you need to know that the variable is only visible in the INIT event. If you need it anywhere else, you will have to put into a form property or you will have to turn it into a public variable.
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>>>Sure would be nice to have form-scoped variables!
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>>Call them properties!
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>Yes, just as I did above. But a form-scoped variable would elminate a lot of work putting the properties onto the form (even if your form class contains the ones you 'always' use).
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>I guess I'm just lazy.
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>Barbara

that is available -- it's called 2.x...