>> >>Not sure what you mean by this??
>> >
>> >you can create dataenvironment object outside of forms and instantiate
>> them
>> >in form when you need
>> >
>> >Arnon
>>
>> Hi Arnon...
>> How would I do this?
>
>here is a short (very basic and simple) example (generated with the latest version of my
>DEExtractor)
>otCursor and otDataEnvitonment are the base cursor and DE classes I use
>
>

>FUNCTION createDE
>LPARAMETER tcDEName
>LOCAL lode
>	loDE=createobject(tcDEName)
>RETURN loDE
>
>DEFINE CLASS Cursor1 AS otCursor
>Left = 10
>Top = 20
>Width = 95
>Height = 90
>Alias = "title"
>Database = "..\data\zoom.dbc"
>CursorSource = "title"
>Name = "Cursor1"
>ENDDEFINE
>
>DEFINE CLASS Cursor2 AS otCursor
>Left = 149
>Top = 10
>Width = 95
>Height = 90
>Alias = "customers"
>Database = "..\data\zoom.dbc"
>CursorSource = "customers"
>Name = "Cursor2"
>ENDDEFINE
>
>DEFINE CLASS rptde AS otDataEnvironment
>Left = 98
>Top = 344
>Width = 520
>Height = 200
>Name = "rptde"
>   ADD OBJECT oCursor1 AS Cursor1
>   ADD OBJECT oCursor2 AS Cursor2
>ENDDEFINE
>
>DEFINE CLASS srchde AS otDataEnvironment
>Left = 1
>Top = 220
>Width = 520
>Height = 200
>Name = "srchform"
>   ADD OBJECT oCursor1 AS Cursor1
>ENDDEFINE
>

thanks... I will try that