> This is what I want to do. I have a dialog that allows the user to enter a
> code and after the user enters the code and clicks on search button, the
> program will return the location of the coded item in another field. The
> database has already been opened by another CRecordset derived class created
> by MFC. My idea of doing it will be to create a OnSearch function in the
> SearchDialog class which should handle the searching of the code through the
> database. That means I must have some how a method to access the variables
> in the CRecordset derived class so that I can do a comparison between the
> variables given to me in the search dialog class and the variables coupled
> to the fields of the database. I thought that I should use a pointer to
> point to this class to access functions like IsOpen, IsBOF and other
> navigational functions like MoveNext(), etc. Here are a couple of questions.

> a) Am I doing it the right way?
> b) How do I get a pointer that points to the CRecordset derived class? In
> other words, I need to know how I can get a pointer to an existing class
> much like the GetDocument() function.
> c) Is there an easier or faster way of doing it?

> Thank you very much for answering my questions!

> P/S: I am using ODBC and snapshot