>>Roxanne,
>>Are you (and everyone else who replied) saying that the methods are executing in order and my problem is that I'm using a wait window?
>
>yes.

Roxanne,
I have this code in a button on page 9

thisform.cmdFind.click()
thisform.GetPatronInfo()
if ! empty(thisform.nCutOff)
=errormsg("Patron's borrowing privileges are suspended, excessive fines or overdue material")
return
endif

I select a person on the find form that does cause the thisform.nCutOff to be greater than 0 and it does not cause the error message to display. I put a break point at the "if ! empty(thisform.nCutOff)" line and when I selected the same person and hit the break point the value of thisform.nCutOff and the value of thisform.nCutOff is 0 and the id of the person is blank.

The next time I click on the button and select a person were the nCutOff is realy zero, the break point shows that nCutOff = 10 and the person ID is that of the previous person (the one in the para above).

This seems to me that the methods are not executing in order.

Ed