After posting my original message, this is the solution I developed. I have to send a parameter to some forms so I added that to my code as well!
>Dan,
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>My code that does basically the same thing uses the _screen.Forms[] collection. It looks for the _screen.Forms[i].Name if it is the name I'm looking for I just _screen.Forms[i].Activate() otherwise it does a DO FORM.
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>>I have an application that uses a button on several different forms to open a different form. I can prevent the form from opening if it is already open with the following code in the click method of the button:
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>> if !wexist(<
>)
>> do form ...
>> endif
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>>My question is, if the form is already open, how can I activate it without re-opening it?