Tim,

Let's call the two forms Parent (On top but not active) and Child (Active). If the Child must manipulate the Parent there are a number of ways to do this. One way is to have Child return a value to Parent and let Parent manipulate itself based on what Child returns.

Another way is to pass a reference to Parent as a parameter to Child by doing this from a method of Parent;

DO FORM Child WITH THISFORM

In Child you would create a custom property named oParent and do this in its Init event;

LPARAMETERS poParent
THISFORM.oParent = poParent

Then in Child you can address the Parent through;

THISFORM.oParent.SomeProperty = SomeValue

In this approach you do need to add a line of code to the Child form's Destroy event;

THISFORM.oParent = .NULL.

To release the external object reference to the Parent form.

Either of these approaches removes the need for global variables.