I have an application that uses ODBC to a MS SQL backend. I need to change the screen forms to allow multiple instances of the same form to be opened at the same time. What I'd like to be able to do is to reference the same cursor name within each instance but not reference the same actual cursor. I have a data engine class that manages the data by request from the requestor and works with a cursor named 'curXXXXXXXX'. The 'XXXXXXXX' is the name of the base table on the data source. For example the program will do a call to SQLEXEC() as:

SQLEXEC(m.lnHandle,'SELECT * FROM Users WHERE UserID = "JWHITE" ORDER BY UserID','curUsers')

This produces a cursor by the name of curUsers with one row for the requested user-id. Now the problem is if I open another instance of the screen form or another form that references curUsers things are going to get trashed. My question is is there a way to control this? I could fabricate a unique cursor name and reference it with a memvar but this gets messy with EVALUATE(), macro substitutions, etc. Is there any way to use the data environment at the form level to do what I want?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jim White