Brad,

As Bruce said you need to copy the parameter to a form property if you are going to use it outside of the Init. Also I don't think you want to code that in the Activate() because that fires each time the form regains focus, so if the user edits the value, changes windows, then comes back to this one it'll stuff the original value back in the textbox. You can make the text1.Value assignment right in the Init()

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>This is what I have on the init of magnify.scx
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>LPARAMETERS cParam1
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>Then I call up in the activate
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>Thisform.text1.value = cParam1 &&This assigns the value passed to the text box.
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>But I still am getting an error that the parameters statement was not there.
>I am not sure what I am doing wrong and would greatly appreciate any advice.