Hi!

Data envirnment is not used in such case. If you will manage to do something like that using data environments, you will be the first. However, it will be extremely hard with known Data environment limitations, if it is possible at all.

You might be interested to look to the popular frameworks and see how it is organized there. There is also Stonefield Data Toolkit (SDT) that can help you.

If you want to go on your own track, I would recommend you to do not use data environment, but use your own objects and refer these objects from all your forms instead of use of the data environment and standard VFP approach related to direct access to tables and aliases.

HTH.

>The main purpose is so I can refer to my data environments using object referencing, but by automatically generating it, I am free to make visual changes, and when recompiled the new object code will reflect those changes.
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>I can add functionality to the object generated code that will peform general tasks, without re inventing the wheel, and plug them into my form classes.
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>So far things are working just fine, but I was wondering what approaches other people have made, functionality included, and pit falls or short cuts.