>>>Can I RELEASE a FORM from another FORM? Most of the
>>>time I use RELEASE THISFORM, but now I need to RELEASE
>>>A FORM outside the FORM I am in.
>>>
>>>help
>>
>>First you need to get a reference to the "other" form. If the other form is based on a [global] variable then you can do something like goOtherForm.Release
>>
>>If the form's name is unique (and you have VFP 5) you can look through _VFP.Forms[x] where Forms is an array of all the forms and then do a release on the correct form.
>>
>>HTH,
>>Peter
>
>Hi Peter... How would I assigned a FORM to a global variable? I am a
>clipper (dos) programmer moving to VFP. thanks

Do something like this in VFP:
public goSomeForm
DO FORM SomeForm.scx TO m.goSomeForm

goSomeForm will now contain a reference to the form, and you should be able to do m.goSomeForm.Release to release the form