Hi Nigel.

>> I tried this and it always returns the screen object. The documentation says it will return false if no object is found. <<

This is exactly what I would expect to happen < s >. If the mouse is over a form or a form or form object, ?o.name witll return the name of the form or contained object in response to o=sys(1270). If the mouse is over the VFP _Screen, I would expect ?o.name to return Screen.

Marcia