Jimn,

But it can be a source of confusion to have three (yes, three) names floating about for a form:

1) the name in the Name property;
2) the name of the form as it appears in the Project Manager window;
3) the name on the Name clause of Do Form.

Some other nomenclature would have been more helpful all around.

regards,
Jim N

.>>I have a class that is made up of a container and some labels. We will call it Example1.
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>>I instantiate this class with oExample1 = CREATEOBJECT("example1") at the beginning of my program. I then run a form with DO FORM. In the ini() method of the form, I ADDOBJECT("oExample1", "example1") this container class to the form.
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>>While the program is running, a timer object fires a method in another class that was also instantiated at the beginning of the program with oExample2 = CREATEOBJECT("Example2"). While this method is running, it updates the captions in the first class with oExample1.lblLabel.Caption = Testing". This update is not reflected in the Example1 class.
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>>My thought is that I have create two separate instances of Example1, so changeing the labels in oExample does not effect frmForm.oExample. If this is true, how do I go about writing to the object in the form from outside the form. I have tried _SCREEN.frmForm.oExample, frmForm.oExample, and _VFP.frmForm.oExample to no avail. The other question would be, am I going about this the wrong way?
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>>Thanks Ed
>Ed,
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>You are correct that you are manipulating the wrong instance of your class. To manipulate the object inside of the fomr you need to address it there. You can use;
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> _screen.ActiveForm.oExample1
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>if the form is the currently active form. Beyond that you would need some kind mechanism for tracking the fomrs that have been launched.
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>The other issue is that you are confusing the Name property of the form with the form object's name, they are not the same thing. To assign a name to the form object you need to use the NAME clause on teh DO FORM command, as in;
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> DO FORM MyForm NAME MyForm LINKED
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>the LINKED keeps the variable holding the form reference (MyForm) existance as long as the form is there.