you are absolutely correct. It works once I took out the nullifying of the childform object. My bad

Thanks alot

Peter


>>I have a form in vfp9 and from a button I open another (child) form
>>no in this case I want the child to butt on the right side and the same top and height.
>>that's easy and working
>>
>>but now when I change the height of the parent form I want the child form to change its height
>>\it does not worj in resize (I guess at that time the form's own height has not changed. I tried it in Paint
>>still not working
>
>Putting in Resize() should work just fine (I just tested it). Are you sure This.lPrivOpen is true?