Brian,
I have a really crappy net connection so this will be short and sweet.
You can use
activate window (wtitle( wchild(i) )) to programatically activate the window if "Form Designer" or "Class Designer" is in wtitle(), and then use aselobj(laArray,1) to get a reference to the outermost container in that design surface.
>Found the problem. The KEYBOARD "{CTRL+A}" works, but the ASELOBJ() was not. Two parameters are required to return the form reference: ASELOBJ(array,1) works as expected.