>Thanks for the reponse...the method is now visible and I'm not exactly sure why. I may have had the option set to show 'non default properties' which corrected itself when I restarted FoxPro this morning. However, I'm still not where I need to be. When I run the child form I received the error message "'method name.prg' does not exist" where 'method name' is the name of the method created in the parent form. I created a new form from the parent and this form works fine. I don't know where to begin to debug the error in the form I want to use. I just started using Visual Foxpro 6.
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>P.S. Let me know if I am posting this message incorrectly...I'm new to the Universalthread as well.
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>TIA

Gary,
You must be posting correctly because I can read it. Another suggeston...
If you add code to a parent class be user you put DoDefault() in the child forms if you add any code to them. This will cause the child method to run the parent method. Otherwise the parent method does not run. One of the places I had the most trouble with when starting out with VFP was DoDefault and NoDefault. In places like the keypress event you may need to use NoDefault to be sure the event does not run.