Oh never build from baseclasses but create yourBaseclasses. You might create just an abstract form class and for existing forms you might hack the scx'es programmatically to subclass from that class with something like :

update ("myform.scx") ;
set class="mybaseform", ;
classloc="c:\mypath\myclasslib.vcx" ;
where lower(baseclass) == 'form' and classloc==''

Cetin

>Hi Cetin,
>
>Thanks for your info. I just thought i could factor those common settings out to one place without scattering code all over form.load or form.de.beforeopentables, perhaps i need to build a base form of my own...
>
>David
>
>>>>>>>>>>>.
>Nope, it's scoped to current datasession.
>
>FWIW have your 'set' commands in form.load or form.de beforeopentables.
>Cetin