thanks tracy for replying

but i get a error message 'object frmMain is not found'.

ok here's what i did
in my toplevel form i created three properties and bound to memory variables.

in my prg i update the memory variables and before returning i issue

frmMain.currentquater=m.mvQuarter_Q
frmMain.year=m.mvQuarter_Y
frmMain.masterupd=m.mvMasterUpd

but the above error message popup now

what's missing ?
txs