>I want to prevent form b for displaying if form a is not active. I now know how to check if
>form is open. What I cannot figure out is how to close form a before it even displays. I tried
>putting thisform.release() in the activate, init, and load events of the form. None of them seem
>to work. Is this possible? If so how. Am I using the wrong event or the wrong command?

Simply have the Init method return .F.