I think you may need to explicitly call the OpenTables() method. The BeforeOpenTables() method is kind of misleading, because it doesn't run before the OpenTables() method, it runs at the beginning of the OpenTables() method. So if OpenTables() does not get called (AutoOpenTables = .F.), BeforeOpenTables() does not get called. Hope this makes sense.

>When entering a form, the user has to select which database they will be working within. I have put the selector screen (modal) in the init method of the DE. Then, I do a number of AddObjects to give the proper properties to the cursors. The last line of the Init method is This.OpenTables(). Only the last table that I have AddObject'd is actually instantiated. When I look in the DE through the debugger, all of the cursors are defined - seemingly correctly.
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>I do have the DE property AutoOpenTables set to .F.
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>I have to call the modal select form in the init method of the DE because it will not populate properly if I do it in the BeforeOpenTables method.
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>I'm using Visual MaxFrame as my framework.
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>Any Ideas?
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>Dick Harrold