>>What are some reasons a Form would not be recognized as an object? I'm trying to pass parameters and call procedures from other forms, but I'm getting a '"FormName" not found' message. If I re-run the form, then it is recognized as an object and all procedures work. Why not the first time?
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>Mark, I don't know why passing parameters and calling procedures are related, so I'll answer the best I can.
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>How do you instantiate the form? DO FORM formname WITH parmlist NAME oMyForm, should work fine. Do you call it from a menu selection, or from another form. oMyForm may need to be public. I'm just guessing here, since I don't know the whole problem.
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>Calling procedures from other forms?? If those procedures are for the form they are properties of, then ok. If they are more general/generic, they should either reside in an application object or a utility.prg of some sort. Even though this is OOP, I still believe in maintaining a basic procedural heirarchy: always calling back, or up for common functions, and forward or down for specific functions, and never across.
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>HTH

Thanks for the help. I was calling the form from a private data session, which means it's part of that session and not accessible from other forms, apparently. Declaring it a public variable seems to have cleared up the problem, though. (I'm sure there will be more.) Thanks again.