>Hi Erik,
>
>>Out of curiosity, why would you want a return value from new object besides the object reference? Let's have some background here :-)
>
>You've never found the need for this? Just to pass the value of a textbox back from a modal form class or anything? The way I do it is pass an object reference to the form so I can fill a property of the calling form later. But what if you don't call from an object? Like I said maybe I should pass the Var by reference but off hand I still don't think that would work. A global variable might, but we know how that goes.

I instanciate form classes at run time. All of my forms are called with DO FORM. So modal forms return a value. This is exactly one of my reasons. (The others are DE, the ability to run from the project manager, simple DO FORM syntax, etc.)

But if I had to do things the way you are trying to, I would use:

oForm = CREATEOBJECT("SomeForm")
oForm.Show()
lcVal = oForm.Text1.Value
oForm.Release()


Of course the Ok button on the modal form class just hides the form.