Sure John,

There are several ways to accomplish this. One quick way is to pass the form to the procedure as a parameter. i.e. DO MyProcedure WITH ThisForm. Put a parameter at the top of your procedure, something like toCallingForm. Now you can use the form in your procedure, example: toCallingForm.Caption = "Procedure changed this."

HTH
Marty


>I need to write a function that i can call that addresses object properties, but VFP tells me that ThisForm. etc can only be used in object methods. is there a work around??
>tia - john