>>What is the your preferred method to return more than one value from a form? Use an array? or pass a reference to a non-visual object? Or some other way?
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>Roi and Ken both gave good suggestions, but if I wanted to make this as simple as possible for myself and for other programmers, I would accept output parameters
passed by reference.
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>For an example, check out the GridHitTest() method. That returns a value, plus 4 values gained by passing variables by reference.
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>Mike,
>If I understand you correctly, this is the method I wanted to use, but have been unsuccessful implementing.
> The problem I run into is: how do you maintain the by reference integrity of a variable passed by reference after the called form's init event?
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>I know you can save an object reference to a property, but what about a variable passed by reference? How do you prevent it from going out of scope?
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> For Example,
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>DO FORM form2 with @form1
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>in form2.init() event
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> lparameters toForm
> this.cusproperty = toForm
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>now I can access form1 from anywhere in form2 thru the .cusproperty. But how do I do this with a variable passed by ref? Because when I pass a var by ref and assign the parameter to the property in the form's init event, the property only takes on the value, not the reference.
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>Thanks In Advance,
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>Jon

Jon,

I know this thread happend quite a while ago but did you ever get a final answer, if so could you pass it on to me as this is exactly the point I've got to!!

Thanks in advance.

Jeremy