> The much more tricky issue is returning a value from a modeless form. Many > people will argue that you should never have to do this but I have found it > useful in certain cases. If you are interested, let me know. > > Darrel As much as I've found in kbprg.hlp (or something like that), the recommended way is to have a return variable set outside of the form, run the form, and have some of the form's methods set its value. That's what M$ said. They suggested having a wrapper class, which should set the variable, call the form and then return the variable, so it behaves like a function. IMO, not much OOP, nor it's elegant - it's just a typical M$ cludge, for cases they never thought of. There's another idea for calling a CreateObectED form - it may have some parameters passed, so these may be passed by ref. Still, those parameters may be visible to form.init only, and therefore any changes to them may be lost when form.init exits. Really, is there any solution to returning value from a form except using Do Form xxx to myvar, for modal forms. Besides, if a CreateObectED modal form returns value from its Unload method, where does the value go?