That clears things up a lot. I've been using my form class as a template, but usually not called from code. I'll have to make some changes.

Thanks again.

John

>Hi, John-
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>>I understand that the class doesn't have a DE. Are you saying that a form created (i.e. newobject('myform','formclass',...)) doesn't have a DE unless I specifically code it into the base class as in your example?
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>Correct. That is what the example demonstrates.
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>> If I open a table in such a form, then I must specifically close it, just as in a .prg, right?
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>Not necessarily. You can use the DE's CloseTables() method The following is a better example, I hope, for your situation. Note: I couldn't get AutoOpen and AutoClose to work in a programmatic DE. I'm not sure if it should, or not.