Paul,

You can stop the creation of the form with its Init Event. If it return .f., the form is not created. You could save the error condition in an ad hoc property and in the Init method, test if the error occured and return false if that is the case. The Init event is executed after the load.

>
>My code in the load method looks something like:
>
>on error do err_rtn
>use xxx
>on error
thisform.ErrorCode= err_code

... and in the init method

if thisform.ErrorCode
return .f.
endif


Hope this helps,

Marc