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>Form A declares a set of variables. Click event of a command button fires up another Form B (within Form A). I pick a date, name and a time (displayed as a charcter field), which are assigned to variables. User clicks return on Form B to be returned to Form A.
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>What is the best way of passing these variables from Form B to Form A?

Nadya mentions one method, to pass a reference to the calling form, update or add properties to it in the called form, and on exit, the updated values are in the form. I prefer to use a parameter object - an object that is used just to move properties between two other objects. It can be passed on call, updated, and the updated values will be visible on return, or, in the case of a modal form, it can be created and populated entirely in the called form, and returned to the caller via the RETURN in the Unload event of the modal form, so that it doesn't affect the content of the parent form directly. It can be a very lightweight object; I expect to use the Empty class in VFP 8 for most of these situations.