>Thanks Mike
>I'm not expecting a book on why not to use the formset and i understand that every is busy.
>Except For Ed Rauh :-) (over 9500 replies over 2 years).
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>I under stand this of a form manager and using a formset to cascade would be very hard. But all i was looking for was a very good reason of not to use a formset. I'm the type of person that has to have absolutes...i will find the pros and cons of this as we speak now i'm researching this issue. I will come back with a list and then the Thread can disect it.
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>TKS
>Shawn

Shawn,

I've been thinking about why I don't use formsets except for occasional backward compatibility issues. For me it boils down to two reasons, which are not all that significant.
1. When VFP 3 came out, control instantiation on a form was a bit slow, so I used tricks to not instantiate forms until I was ready for them. Formsets instatiate all forms in the set and can be slow. Control instantiation is much faster now, so that may not be an issue.
2. I usually have only on form running at a time, except for short term pop up forms like lookups, so the extra level of object addressing was not worht it. (formset.form.object).

As I rethink the issue, there are certainly some advantages to formsets, especially if you want a quick way to build related forms that share common data.
I look forward to your pros and cons report.