>I have a bunch of forms in my app. The main form normally loads and never gets released until I exit the app. But when I enter the app from the Administrator's form, the main form is not always loaded unless you have been to the form from a command button. So what's happening is I skip that command button go to another form instead and try to go to the main form from there, it was never loaded so it takes me to a blank window.
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>Is there a way I can check to see if the main form was ever loaded prior to trying to go to it with my DO FORM command? If it was not loaded, I will load it with DO FORM main.scx otherwise, if it is aleady loaded I don't want to load it again. I will skip loading it.
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>Thanks for the help. Never had to do this before. Should be interesting.

Steve, you can go through _screen.forms collection and get the name from there. For example:

FOR EACH loForm IN _screen.forms
IF loForm.Name = "myForm"
WAIT WINDOW "my form is already running"
EXIT
ENDIF
ENDFOR

But most of frameworks have a special Form manager class (or it may be a part of application object) which has an array of forms already running.