>Dear friends,
>
>I am building now an application which has a lot of controls and VALIDATIONS on each form. As this became difficult to manage all forms with the same philosophy, i've decided to create a PRG for each form, where i do SET PROCEDURE TO... (ecah program has the routines needed for THAT form).
>Everything is OK. I open one form, automatically open the PRG, and uses the procedures. When i release the form, automatically close the procedure file.
>The problem i have is: when i'm on form (like invoices, for example), and the user goes to the menu and click to see the products form, i get trouble, because those PRGs have procedure's names in common (like NEW).
>Is there anyway that i can define my procedures to become active only to that form? (i have already thought on creating methods, but i think it will become confuse).
>
>Thanks, because i'm lost! :)
>I don't mind changing now, because i'm at the beginning.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ricardo


Hi Ricardo,

I think what you want is a business object. Create a custom class. Each validation is a different method of the class. Once you have that written, drop it on the form as needed, then call the methods as needed to validate the data.