>I know - that old chestnut
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>I've made some changes to a form and since, whenever I click on a particular combo, the first time, I get:
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>"THISFORM can only be used within a method".
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>I've tried to trace where in debug, even to putting some dummy code in the combo's .GotFocus(), but it follows the code then the message appears from nowhere. Now, I have no code outside the form's methods, referenced anywhere in the form, that includes "Thisform", nor is that the among any of the changes I made. The 2nd time I click on the combo it behaves properly.
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>The only code I have in the combo is in the .InteractiveChange() and this isn't reached (in debug) before the error message.
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>I was using some "thisform.cRouteNo" in a filter string , and in an SQL statement, which I vaguely remember VFP7 doesn't like, so first loaded a method var with this and substitued this in the strings, but made no difference (and indeed these snippets aren't reached first anyway.
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>This has got me baffled. Any ideas
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>'ppreciate it
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>Terry

Terry,

Do you have any code/function in a skip for clause of a menu item popup that contains 'thisform' ?