RE: RETRIEVING VARIABLES FROM FORM

I have 3 simple ways of deciding whether a it should be a property, local or public variable:

1. If the variable should be accessible to all the methods of the form, create a property, example:

Initialize method:
THISFORM.nTotal = 0.0

Method that processes each record:
THISFORM.nTotal = THISFORM.nTotal + TmpList.Amount

Display method:
THISFORM.txtTotal.Value = THISFORM.nTotal

2. If the variable is used only in a single method, declare them using LOCAL command

LOCAL lcName, lnAmount

3. If the variable should be accessible anywhere in your program, declare it using PUBLIC command

PUBLIC gaConns[10, 2], gnMaxConn