>Mark,
>I think I got it, thanks. I was instaniating the child form by calling a method
>in the Application Object which as you pointed out had the VFP global datasession. Although I made the method call from within the parent form which has a private datasession, the child did not inherit the data environment from the parent form. Instead the child form which had the default datasession got the global datasession within which the application object was created much
>early in the application.
>Thanks again.
Bingo! You got it.
Mark McCasland
Midlothian, TX USA