>>>With help last week from Naomi and Hilmar I am able to check for the existence of form b (called from form a) and close it from form a. (See Thread 1473802) Now I'd like to execute a method in Form B called from an event in Form A. Is that possible?
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>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>>dg
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>>The way I solve such problem is this:
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>>You need to get a reference to the formB in form's A. One of the ways is if the form B calls Form A it passes itself as a reference, e.g.
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>>do formA with thisform. In the form's A Init method you save that reference in form's property and then you can call any method of form's B using that reference.
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>Thank you very much for your patience and assistance. Form A is the main form called from the main program. It sets a menu. From controls on Form A, Form B would be called. Since both are modeless, the user can move focus from one form to the other. If Form A has focus and an event occurs, I want to execute a method in Form B without closing Form B and reinstantiating Form B.
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>Could you please identify how the reference would be passed in this case.
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>dg

One possibility is to use class based form. Then you'll have a reference to the form.

Another way is to have a form's manager.

Finally, you can always get a reference to the form looping through _screen forms collection.