RE: Newbie help

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From: Lee Mitchell (Leemi_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:19:41 GMT

Hi Elwin:

Yes, this could cause a problem in the future since variables can fall out
of scope in a form very easily. If you insist on using memory variables,
you should make they all public so they remain in scope. However, you need
to release them when you leave the form.

A better option is to use table buffering. You can store the data and
changes in memory, and discard or write the data to the tables as
necessary. See this article for more info:

129641 INFO: Alternative to SCATTER and GATHER in the New VFP Model
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=129641

I hope this helps.

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Sincerely,
Microsoft FoxPro Technical Support
Lee Mitchell

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>Hi All,
>I'm a newbie coming from a dBase world. When I create forms, all my
>textboxes, checkboxes, buttons and so on are NOT bound to any
>fields/tables because I feel more comfortable to have them bound to
>variables instead. Is this the correct way of doing things? Will this
>style of programming come back to haunt me in the future, for example
>in OOP? If this style is not right what do you advise?
Thanks, Elwin

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