>>i usually just do a thisform.pageframe.pageX.refresh in the activate event of each page in the frame. this keeps the info up-to-date as far as the user can tell and saves me the time of writing the kind of function you're looking at.
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>So, if you have 8 pages, you are goona put this code in the activate of each page and you'll have to do the same for each form that has a pageframe unless you have a way of putting this code automaticaly at run time.
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>By having additional code that will take care of that in the refresh method of the baseform, we won't have to do this for each form.

true... but my boss isn't crazy about pageframes, so we usually don't have more than two or three on a form (if any).