Are you running those 2 commands from the Command Window or an APP? I issued only those 2 commands from the Command Window and the dialogue remains until I close it. The Filter form shows then I get an immediate GetFile() dialogue to select a table to query/filter.

I only made 1 change to the class, and that was to make it use a private DS. However, that has nothing to do with your problem.

>When I have a table selected and run the commands you gave me in the command line the filter dialog pops up and then disappears. How do I get it to stay up?
>
>Jim
>
>>>Is there a way to bring the table filter dialog up?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Jim
>>
>>You mean something like:
>>
>>oFilter = newobject('_filterdialog', addbs(home()) + 'ffc\_table')
>>oFilter.Show()