>>Similary, you can plug a completely handcode form -- one which uses no mere mortals classes -- in the mere mortals framework -- without causing problems. Mere mortals has no arrays which every form is supposed to update, or anything of that sort?
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>Gar,
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>This is one of those areas where I believe you'll suddenly find yourself fighting with the framework (or any framework for that matter). Why create a form without using the framework's form class? The form class is already designed to collaberate with the forms manager class, toolbar class, the business objects class, etc.
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>George

Your point is well taken. Custom forms will simply inherit from the MM class and (if needed) add a great deal of codes. If you can't do it that way -- either drop the requirement or decide we've chosen the wrong framework.