Ken,

You can use the olf windows functions like wchild() to find the design surfaces. Then you can ACTIVATE WINDOW to activate it, and ASLEOBJ(,1) to get a reference to the form itself.

>If anyone can help:
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>I know that when a form is open in design mode, it exists as an object, because ASELOBJ() when called in a builder can return a pointer to it.
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>What I'm wondering is, is there a way to obtain a pointer to a form which is open in design mode programmatically, something like:
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>MODI FORM MyForm
>oForm = **Some command to get pointer to that open form
>DO MyBuilder WITH oForm
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>I have dug through _Screen object and cannot find anything referring to forms open in design mode. Does anyone know of a back door to get at this?
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>As always, TIA.