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I know I will be riduculed for this by I handled that situation in an old VFP3 Application by In the Main Startup a I defined a global variable 'gccurrentfocus' that on got focus in each item in all containers was assigned the name of the control...>>
>>Congratullations Edgar, really a great solution, simple yet very functional! (By the way, as an old Cobol dog I still like to use some of these solutions <s>).
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>>Just curious, you though would be ridicularized because of what?
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>>Fernando
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>I've seen here that many people prefer no "global variables", where I use them intently. oh well, I recall that the original purpose of the new variable was to allow "last text-box variable update to be enforced" when a user closed the form (without leaving the text-box), even that was subject to field level verification.
Edgar,
I agree with you. We use a large number of global vars that get set in our main prg. We never declare a var public.
John.
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