>The first form calls the second form from a command button. "do form form1 name o124"
>
>I was using a command button on the second form to check its windowstate by using (o124.windowstate). At this point I would get the error that it couldn't find o124.


Your variable has gone out of scope - o124 will go out of scope as soon as the click event has finished.

As for the FORMS collection, you could try something like:

FOR 1 = 1 TO _SCREEN.FormCount
IF _SCREEN.Forms(i).Name = 'Form1'

oForm = _SCREEN.Forms(i)
nWindowState = oForm.WindowState
...
EXIT

ENDIF

ENDFOR

I am sure there are eleganter ways, but that should work.


HTH

Les