>There is a well defined setting environment for private datasession forms as covered by the SET DATASESSION help topic. It does work well as long as you understand the order things happen as objects instantiate.
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>You could change your form to default data session which can be manipulated to your liking before instantiate the form.
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>Or use a seperate private ds form that instantiates your current form. If your form is set to default ds it'll open in the first form's private ds which will have set talk off based on it's inherited Load().

Interesting trick, if I recall correctly, we put it in the Load() as it is the closest point to put it for the form instantiation as, when defining the baseform class, we cannot have access to the DE. Is there something new in regards to that in VFP 8?