>>Hilmar:
>>
>>Let's just say that within the context of this particular app, I want the SAVE SCREEN to work. There must be a reason why the var is not being created. Any ideas?
>
>Not really. Does declaring the variable beforehand help, or not?

No.

this also doesn't work:

PUBLIC gg
gg = .NULL.
SAVE SCREEN TO gg
RESTORE SCREEN FROM gg