> >>>Now MY pet peeve is the need for a form-wide variable. Sometimes it > just isn't convenient to use a form property.... > >>> > >>>Barbara > > > >I think is just a variable you can declare in the init() and edit every > where > >in the form... > > > >LOCALFORM MyVar_lfc > > > >;) > > Thanks Gerald, that's exactly what I meant. Good notation, too. :-) I'd object to the notation - lf is superfluous, just f could simply mean "scoped to the form"... well, like this: FORMLOCAL MyVar_fc And, along the same line: Procedure Init Fparameter MyParm_fc We're dreamers. M$ will never do it. We'd better write a class.