Shouldn't I be able to reference and change the properties of one form from
another form?  Example:

Form1 is a customer lookup window

Form2 is a customer data screen

Shouldn't I be able excecute a command like this from form2:

    form1.caption="Don't let the door hit you on the way out"

I've been able to do this with several other forms but I keep getting an
error to the effect of "FORM1 is not an object."   Is this a bug?  Is there
some funky behind the scenes naming convention going on?

Thanks,

Keith

Nope. Form2 knows nothing about Form1, which is how it should be. Try:

_SCREEN.form1.caption="Don't let the door hit you on the way out"

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Craig Berntson
Microsoft FoxPro MVP
Salt Lake City Fox User Group
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When I try that, I get an error message:

Unknown member FRMCUSTLOOK.

(FRMCUSTLOOK is Form1)

???????

You can if both forms are part of a 'formset'. In that case, from form2, write:

thisformset.form1.caption="Don't let the door hit you on the way out"

Hi Keith,
You are going to have to write a routine that parses the _Screen.forms[]
collection to find "form1" and return an object reference to it.  A lot of
people use the Caption property to base the search on.  You can also use the
Name property.  The code would look something like this:

lparameter lcformname
local loform

for each loform in _Screen.forms
    if loform.Name = lcformname then     && the THEN is optional
        return loform
    endif
endfor

Larry Miller