>Does anyone know...
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>Is there a reason that you can't execute a custom form method from within the BeforeOpenTables event? When I trace through the code it steps right past the custom method (no errors) and never executes it. [VFP 6, SP3]
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>TIA
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>-Matt
Matt,
You can call a fomr method from the BeforeOpenTables event, however during the firing of the creation of the de with auto open tables set to .t., the form doesn't yet exist so it can't run the method. I'm not sure why you get no error though.