Hi Paul,

Try using _SCREEN.ActiveForm instead of THISFORM and see if that helps. For instance, this would be the code for the menu bar.

_SCREEN.ActiveForm.MyMethod()

HTH,
Evan Pauley

>I have a form where I want some options to be displayed on the main menu. So I create a new menu pad from this form's init, and release the menu pad from the form's release method. I want to run one of the form's methods when a menu bar is selected from this new menu pad.
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>I tried the following command: oThisform = thisform so that I could reference "thisform's" methods. I get the error oThisform does not exist. I assume that this is because the form has a private datasession.
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>Anyway, I then declared oThisform to be public and then everything seems to work fine.
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>My question is, is there a problem with doing this? Is this defeating the purpose of having the form in a private datasession? Or maybe I'm worrying about nothing and it is ok to do this and then release oThisform from within the form's release method?
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>thanks,
>Paul