>>>what, in the vfp default form behaviour causes an application to lose something as vital as the main procedure file identified in the 'set procedure' call?
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>>>If I call one form from another (as opposed to calling the same form from the main menu), then the routine procedures and functions called by many forms (and which are stored in the main procedure file) disappear.
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>>>I can bodge around the problem by reissuing the set procedure command as and when needed, but I'd like to understand why I need to - especially if it means I'm likely to be doing something wrong
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>>>Harry
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>>By definition any form using private datasession has own independent setting (see list of affected SET command in Help under 'Set Datasession'). Forms with default data session shares all these SETs.
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>Ed, I don't believe that SET PROCEDURE is scoped to the datasession, but if you issue another SET PROCEDURE statement without using the ADDITIVE clause, it'll lose the first SET PROCEDURE setting, even if a function or procedure in the procedure file had been referenced before that.

I believe you're right. I'm now on computer with no VFP (and Help) installed. This is why I tried to be extremely careful in my answer :-).