Gerard:
Thjis is kind of 'out of the box'. You could make a 'grand' custom or form to contain your textbox values (keeping it INvisible), and then reference those for VALUE assignments on the desktop forms. (But) a DBF or CURSOR is also a container, and you could simply populate (by reference) the desktop forms with table field pointers.


>David,
>I was thinking more of placeholders to hold constants that would apply to all 4 forms that are calling each other.
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>Typically, you might call up say the first form, and depending on this form (other than say data entry fields) you may want settings maintained/persisted and to be accessible by the called forms .
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>Regards.
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>Gerard
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>>Gerard,
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>>I don't use memvars for data entry. I bind controls directly to table/view fields and use the native data buffering to be able to commit/revert changes. Using memvars ala FP2.x causes lots of problems when you consider multiple instances of a form.
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>>>In the Form calling a form scenario, I understand that the data can be common to all forms, bu Memory variables(or properties) initialized in say Forma wont be available in FormC ......