Bela, in the INIT store the variable to a form property which you have designed for this purpose. You can store an array or an object (like a form reference) to a form property exactly as you would store a character or numeric variable. The only thing to remember is for array properties you have to set the property as an array in the first place and then use acopy() to store your variable to the form array property.

HTH
Barbara

>Hi Jim!
>
>But how to change this variable in other methods than Init?
>
>TIA
>
>BB
>
>>>Hi everybody!
>>>
>>>Can someone tell me, the correct way to return a value from a modal form, if the form was launched by the Createobject() command?
>>>
>>>Now, I give in a parameter the name of the variable, in which I want to get back the return value. I am cuoriuos, if there is a better way.
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
>>>BB
>>Bela,
>>
>>Be sure you are passing that parameter by reference as in;
>>
>> loObj = CreateObject("MyFormClass",@MyVar)
>>
>>This way whatever the form does to MyVar is actually happening to the copy of MyVar in the calling code.