>Greetings George
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>>Look at the _SCREEN system variable, specifically the ActiveForm property and the Forms collection.
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>tried it but this doesn't seem to give me what I need, although I'm not sure I even understand the 'collection' property so it may still contain the answer.
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>I need to know, for example, if any forms are active and if so, what are there names. I don't see any way of getting at that data from the _screen variable or any 'activeform' property unless you already know the name of the open form which, by definition, I won't.
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>The 'Wontop()' function does exactly what I need but only for windows rather than forms...
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Hi Harry,

Perhaps I'm not quite understanding want you're asking, but here's a small sample of what you can access from either the _screen or forms collection.

? _SCREEN.FormCount && the number of currently active forms.
? _SCREEN.ActiveForm.Caption
? _SCREEN.ActiveForm.BaseClass && the base class name
? _SCREEN.ActiveForm.Name
* Assuming multiple forms (5 in the example).
? _SCREEN.Forms(5).Caption && The caption of the form at the bottom of the z order
? _SCREEN.Forms(5).Name

hth,