>In other words, I can't do this with the form saved as a class. It has to be a form. Is that correct?
>

That's my understanding. Without a statement that sits there and waits on the Unload event to fire to pick up the value and put it in a variable, you're SOL.

One thing you could do is to create an object to receive the value, and pass the object reference into the form saved as class in the Init. Save the object reference in a form property. Update a property of the object (or do an AddProperty(), or whatever) before the form as class terminates. When control is returned to the program that fired the model form, it can then check the content of the parameter object to see any return value. And it works in more than modal forms, too, and can pass back more than a simple value this way, too.

>>>I have a modal form defined as a class. The class returns a numeric value in the Unload event.
>>>
>>>In my calling method I have:
>>>
>>>oForm = createobject('MyModalForm')
>>>nRetVal = oForm.Show()
>>>
>>>When the modal form returns nRetVal is always a logical!
>>>
>>>What am I doing wrong?
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>>To return a value from a Modal form, you need to use the DO FORM formname TO varname syntax. Unless there's code in the Show method, you'll get the return from the Show method (that's what you just asked for!) which, if nothing is specified, will be a logical. The form doesn't terminate when the Show event completes...