>Yes it is in VFP. Is it passe to use a form set? Please let me know if it's considered gauche. I seldom develop user interfaces, I manage a data warehouse primarily.

The use of formset is only in VFP for backward compatility. There shouldn't be any use of those, especially on new projects. If you have to support old projects, then, it may be useful to try to workaround that. But, as soon as time come, you might consider getting rid of those. :)

>My reasoning for using a formset was to hang all the shared properties for a set of forms and to hang a collection tree that the forms define. For instance the name of the temporary directory some scrap files are getting created.

Welcome to OOP! :) Seriously, OOP will serve you well in this case. Just define a form class for the required form that need specific needs. So, you have a base form class for all the framework. Then, you subclass it for specific form. Then, you build the specific forms on top of it. There you go.