Karen, I doesn't take very long to turn an existing bound form into an EFF. Just open the existing form, select all and copy into an EFF form.
You may to change some of the calls to include CONNECT and DISCONNECT. Jan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:16:17 EDT Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: So you can disconnect while in a bound form? Larry: I'm with you... He wants me to consider putting the same kind of code on the main menu of another client so that's why I'm questioning this. On this other client, the main menu has a couple display-only variable lookup list views that display data from a few tables. I'm assuming that the form gathers the data to display it in the list views and never locks the tables, doing a disconnect still has the data cached so it will display, and reconnecting the database will reestablish the connection if those controls need to be refreshed.. Karen I'm surprised you can do this and yes, I would guess you would be in real danger of corrupting the database, especially if you are in ENTER mode. If you are editing and haven't changed any data (eg, a menu form with no fields placed) you'll probably be okay. But I can't imagine this is a "best practice", or even a good one. -- Larry
