>so, when you say I have to return the value in its unload event, you mean in the small form that asks for the value, put: return(city) in its onload event?

Well, most probably in the modal form you'll have a TextBox control that actually accepts the City value.

1. Create a form property on the small, modal form called icReturnValue. Initialize it to a blank string (ie, enter ="" in the Property Sheet).

2. In the Valid() method of the TextBox control that accepts the City value, execute the commands:

THIS.icReturnValue = ALLTRIM( THIS.Value )
THISFORM.Release()

3. In the Unload() method of the small, modal form, execute the command:

RETURN ( THIS.icReturnValue )

That should take care of everything. Now, when you enter a City value, that value will be returned to the calling procedure.