>>>>>Hi Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a form that displays a shortcut popup when you right-click on it. One of the choices in the menu needs to run a method of the form. How do I reference the form from within the scope of the popup menu?
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA
>>>>>
>>>>>Mike
>>>>
>>>>You should either name of Form scx file or reference name if you used
>>>>DO FORM ... NAME cRefname
>>>
>>>That doesn't seem to work. Here is what I'm looking at:
>>>
>>>from main menu
>>>
>>>do form customer.scx
>>>
>>>
>>>inside customer.scx
>>> form1.name = 'Customer_window'
>>>
>>>customer_window.rightclick()
>>> do customermenu.mpr
>>>
>>>
>>>inside customermenu
>>> customer_window.mymethod(p1,p2)
>>>
>>>or
>>>
>>> customer.mymethod(p1,p2)
>>>
>>>
>>>either of these gives me the object does not exist error
>>>
>>>what am I doing wrong??
>>
>>Try this:
>>DO FORM customer NAME frmCust
>>and in menu use:
>>frmCust.mymethod
>>Also you can try LINKED clause of DO FORM command
>
>
>
>Without the LINKED Clause: 'Object frmCust not found'
>
>With LINKED Clause: customer form appears briefly and disappears. This tells me that the frmCust variable is immediately going out of scope. I was wrong to tell you that the customer form is called from my main menu. It is actually called in the click event of a button on my main toolbar. There is no actual main menu. Apparently, the system immediately returns from the click event after opening the customer form. When it returns, the frmCust goes out of scope. When Linked is used, this causes form to close. When linked is not used the form stays open but the variable name no longer exists. Is there any way to make that variable name global?
>
>- Mike

Well, toolbar is another story. You can try to make variable global and I believe it should work. However, if you have toolbar, is it not part of formset? If so you can easily use formset relative references from toolbar to any form which is added to the same formset.