>Nadya
> I tried again to get the approach that Claudio described to work, and it finally has! Here's what I did, (BTW I'm using VFP 6.x ) I created a property in the form, in the Init event I used the following syntax:
>
> select XXXX ( table )
> scatter name thisform.propertyname memo ( if necessary )
>
>I was then able to access the various elements using the syntax
> thisform.propertyname.fieldname
>the key for me was to make sure I preceeded every reference with thisform.propertyname.xxxx
>
>The bonus for me was that I took the same code for the declaration out of the load event, so I only have it in the init event, and when I launched a child form, I was still able to access the contents of the array by preceeding the property name with the name of the called from form:
> oldformname.propertyname.fieldname
>I was very pleased that it all worked and many thanks to Claudio and all who contributed. I'm not sure if I'm doing it in the most efficient way , but so far the results are good.


I knew, this idea (using form's property) would work, but haven't advised it, because the standard and well recommended way is to use table buffering instead. Anyway, as long as it works for you, it could be used...

Claudio's original approach should not work, I even don't need to try. However, Jim Booth indicated, what it worked in VFP7, so we need to find out, why...