>>One of the recurring justifications for using a private DS is opening the same form twice. My system never does that.

You could have two different forms using the same table however......

And...never is a very long time..... Perhaps a future requirement will require the same form open 2x....



>>Peter,
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>>Most replys I have received on this have been positive towars using Private DS. You seem to indicate a negative feeling towarsd Private DS. Why? What are the negavies aspects of these critters?
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>Ken, see my reply to Al Doman (I cc'd you).
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>One of the recurring justifications for using a private DS is opening the same form twice. My system never does that.
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>I've moved towards some of my approaches trying to regain the speed that I lost when I moved from DOS apps (DataFlex and FP) to VFP. I can't stand that many things take 1 or more seconds to happen and I hear my users grumbling about it too. They do a lot of telephone work and they hate to wait. I heard one discussing with her client how things used to be faster in the old system. (I just speeded up her main form ten times so I hope she's happeier now.)
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>I've been speeding things up slowly and we recently got a new Pentium III workstation with NT (for the hardware tech) that almost feels like the good ol' days of instantaneous response. But the tech guy is not ready to put in anymore NT stations just yet.
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>I haven't had time to run any experiments that would point the finger at private DS. There are many other factors including the generalized nature of the I/O in the VFE framework that I use.
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>One thing I can't do is wait for forms to be built and instantiated every time they are needed so I just keep 'em live and hide one behind another.
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>Peter