Form properties are always local to the form - you don't need any specific declaration. Different instances of the form will have separate copies of the properties.

If you mean local variables, these are declared in a method, and go out of scope as soon as the method finishes.

Hilmar.

>Mike, thanks for your assistance here and it gives me pointers.
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>Just one thing thats puzzling me:-
>If I Make Properties Local to a screen, they are treated separately and dont interfere with a second instance of the same screen at the same time ..right ?
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>If I make all the Memory variables lcoal,by looping around every field in a particular file, will these memory variables not then be local to the screen and not interfere with a second instance. If this is the case, I should not need to set up a Screen object to hold the memory variables ?
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>Gerard
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>>>Could you give me some pointers as to how forms could be fixed automatically.... i Dont want you to write the code but a few pointers would be helpful !!!
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>>First of all, you need to create a list of every form that needs to be changed. Hopefully, you can just do an ADIR(aSelObj, 'source\*.scx') or something similar.
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>>Then, run through the array, and do something like (stress "like"):
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modify form laForms[lnI, 1] nowait
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>>aselobj(aForm)
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>>* use the aform[1] object and scan through every child object, looking for a controlsource property, and setting it appriatly.
>>for each loControl in aForm[1].controls
>>   loControl.controlsource = 'thisform.oRecord.' + strtran(loControl.ControlSource), 'm.', '')
>>endfor
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>>* Use the keyboard to save the form
>>keyboard '{CTRL+W}'

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>>Shoudl make quick work of your forms (you might want to back them all up first :-)