Jan: I agree, I'd like to change this to an external form, and I've done it before with clients whose main menus date back to before we had this capability. What I've done in my EFFs is to put a "connect" command on the "on after start" form eep since 99.9% of the time you want it connected. Then I only disconnect when I absolutely need it. I suppose there is an advantage to having it always disconnected while you're sitting in the main menu, but then I would have to modify all existing subroutines to incorporate a connect. Easy to do from the beginning, not so much if you already have a full app.
As to why I haven't converted yet is that other people working on this app don't have any experience on using EFFs and don't like that you can't say "form mainmenu" or "edit using mainmenu"... They don't like the new syntax... 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 > >
