Mark,

I was running both of the commands at the same time from the command line. I tried running them one at a time and it worked, thanks for the help.

Jim

>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()