>Would you like expand this matter with some small samples Hilmar ?

I forgot - another useful place to store information is text files. My download about backups illustrates how to read from a text file.

Well, some examples of options you might save in a text-file or in a table are:

The current exchange-rate (for systems that work with two currencies).

The name of the company (if you want to allow the user to change that).

Texts for menu items (this allows you to translate the system into several languages).

The list of provinces in your country, or, in general, geographical regions you work with. If you hard-code this, instead of saving it in a table, it is difficult to expand trade to additional countries, for instance.

Where you want to save your automatic backups (see my backup program).

Command-line options for your compression program (see my backup program).

In general, every time you have a ComboBox with a few options, you can hard-code the options. Or, you can consider the alternative to load the options from a table - this allows you do the change without recompiling. Also, eventually you can give the user a form to edit the options. All this isn't possible if the values are hard-coded in the PRG / Form / Class / EXE.

Regards, Hilmar.

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