I have a form with pageframes. It worked beautifully with buffering. But I dumped buffering and switched to SCATTER MEMVAR MEMO and GATHER MEMVAR MEMO at the request of my leader. Consequently, I am still debugging the form with pageframes. Here are some questions that I am pondering that weren't there before.

1. I thought SCATTER created memory variables from fieldnames, but yet they don't seem to save on a GATHER unless I declare the variables as PUBLIC. I thought SCATTER took care of that for me? Huh?

2. I am confused as to when I need the "m." in front of the variable name. Some references seem to work without it while some seem to require it to work properly. Should I always use m.variable as a rule when using SCATTER/GATHER.
In all code referencing the field and in all controls Control Source put the "m."?

3. I also noticed that only the top pageframe form fields were saved when I did GATHER MEMVAR MEMO. It seems that the second and third pageframes within the same form had form fields did not save when I did a GATHER MEMVAR MEMO. I suppose if I declare those fields as m.fieldname using PUBLIC fieldname the fields will save properly.

Thanks for helping me to better understand this.