with Delphi 2.0 I prefer working with datamodules. In a project
consisting of several applications it is the only way to be sure the
'rules' of the database are everywhere equally implemented.

But a strange bevaviour of the Datamodules occured to me.
In a MDI application the navigation within the datamodules is
'linked'. for example. I have two forms with lets say client
information. When i go to the 'next' record in form 1, also form 2
shows the next record. This behaviour did not occur when I still
plastered my forms with tables and datasources.

I've tried several ways (creating the datamodule from the form using
it) to 'trick' the datamodule, but up until now i did not succeed.

Because -as I told before- I do like datamodules, 'plastering tables
on the form' is no solution to me, so please does anyone know how to
create seperate instances of the datamodule for each MDI form ???

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Well, let's think about this.......

Even thought you are opening multiple instances of a form, you are
NOT opening multiple instances of your data module(or the objects inside it
for that matter..)

All of the 'Data Aware' controls on your mdi childr forms ARE linked to ONE
Data Module and the components within them.

You need to create a new instance of your Data Module for each mdi child
you create, OR, you can try to get fancy with the sql each time you set
focus to a new form, but that could be tricky..

Or, you could go back to the old way of putting all the stuff on the
form....  Have fun!!

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Wilko van der Ploeg <w...@xs4all.nl> wrote in article
<4skvqb$...@news.xs4all.nl>...

"Shawn K. Clark" <scl...@illuminet.net> wrote:

Wilko van der Ploeg
ATDT Consultancy
The Netherlands
homepage : http://www.xs4all.nl/~atdt

In article <4skvqb$...@news.xs4all.nl>,
   w...@xs4all.nl (Wilko van der Ploeg) wrote:

Can someone provide a reference in the VCL to where the datamodules are
automatically bound to their referents?

It may be possible to do a very simple little patch that would allow each
form to get its own datamodule. (For example, if it is looking for the
first match in a list, it might be possible to force a new instance into
the beginning of the list, thus tricking the search.)

Of course you can always declare a form variable of the datamodule's type,
and create an instance, but that doesn't connect the components to that
datamodule instance -- the work-around, which I've also tried, is assigning
all the values (Datasource, etc.) at run time. That is a royal pain in the
butt, and in many cases breaks your forms at design time (so you can't
verify SQL is correct, and similar things), so I wouldn't recommend it. An
intermediate solution, is putting datasources on forms, and datasets on
datamodules.

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Can you give an example?

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