Hi Bret,

Take a look at the FFC. It has a form manager that let's you call either a form or a class with the same syntax. I looked at about a year ago.

hth

>I am making a form manager which will DO FORM myform.scx, oForm.Show, oForm.Release and that sort of thing. In order to make it flexible and reduce dependencies, I don't want to require the forms to "register themselves" with the form manager. I therefore need a means of getting object references to forms when I start with a form name, or vice versa. If my method receives "myform.scx" or just "myform" as a parameter, I can DO FORM myparameter. But I don't know how to take "myform" and get an object reference oForm for it (assuming the form already exists). If I have the form.Name property value, I can get oForm like so:
>

>FOR nLoop = 1 TO _SCREEN.Formcount
>	IF _SCREEN.Forms(nLoop).Name = cFormName
>		oFormRef = _SCREEN.Forms(nLoop)
>		RETURN .T.
>	ENDIF
>ENDFOR
>

>...though it would be nice to have a function that didn't require looping like this. However, if I have form.Name, I don't know a way to get the name of the .scx so I can then DO FORM. So:
>

>IF I HAVE                      I NEED
>myform.scx                     oForm
>"Form.name property value"     myform.scx
>

>Thank you. I hope this makes sense.