Greetings and Salutations!

> I have a main form that does this in the init method:

do form custopen name custopen noshow
do form custclose name custclose noshow

> The forms open correctly and do not show in my environment. Then in the click method of a button on the main form I have:

custopen.visible = .t.

> And I get an error that object custopen cannot be found.

The Init methods of all the controls of a form are executed before the Init of the form itself. So the error is accurate, the forms don't yet exist when the button's Init method is run. Consider putting the form code in the Load method, which runs before any of the Inits.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Harry