That won't work for me. I can get the form to work using a private variable in the calling procedure. I'd just like to be able to use a local variable. It might not be possible.

>What the others have been trying to get you to use is an object instead of a character memvar. The following code does what I *think* you are trying for.
>

>LOCAL loName, loForm
>
>loName = CREATEOBJECT( 'Variable', "John Q. Public" )
>loForm = CREATEOBJECT("TestForm",loName)
>loForm.SHOW(1)
>
>ACTIVATE SCREEN
>
>?loName.value  && This has to be the value typed into the form
>
>DEFINE CLASS Variable AS CUSTOM
>	value = ''
>	
>	PROCEDURE Init
>	LPARAMETER tcValue
>	this.value = tcValue
>	ENDPROC
>	
>ENDDEFINE
>
>DEFINE CLASS TestForm AS Form
>  AUTOCENTER = .T.
>  WIDTH = 150
>  HEIGHT = 74
>  Test = ""
>
>  ADD OBJECT txt1 AS TEXTBOX WITH ;
>    HEIGHT = 22, ;
>    LEFT = 10, ;
>    TOP = 10, ;
>    WIDTH = 130
>
>  ADD OBJECT cmd1 AS COMMANDBUTTON WITH ;
>    CAPTION = "Exit", ;
>    HEIGHT = 22, ;
>    LEFT = 45, ;
>    TOP = 40, ;
>    TERMINATEREAD = .T., ;
>    WIDTH = 60
>
>  PROCEDURE INIT
>  LPARAMETER p1
>
>  this.test = p1
>  THIS.txt1.CONTROLSOURCE = "THISFORM.Test.value"
>
>  ENDPROC
>
>ENDDEFINE
>
>