>I'm trusting someone can help.
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>I have some additional information regarding my previous post.
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>1) If I add a by reference parameter to my GerNewKey() method and assign the method's return value to it the by reference parameter returns the correct character value. The same value returned directly, via the function's assignment operator, is .NULL.
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>2) I copied the project and brought it up under the VFP 7 beta. Here the value returned from the function's assignment operator is the correct character value. (It's identical to the value returned by the by reference parameter.)
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>It appears that I have encountered a VFP 6 bug that is fixed in VFP 7. We are currently running Visual Studio SP3. Can anyone tell me if this is a known bug that is fixed in either Visual Studio SP4 or SP5?
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>This is actually *very* important to me. The reason is that my manager has been reluctant to let us update past SP3 due to some issues that occurred here at the same time we initially applied SP4.
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>Comments, thoughts, ideas? Thanks!

I wish I knew the answer to your dilemma here, but I don't, sorry. As mentioned, my first thought was a problem with the modal child form calling the parent form method. But if there actually is a bug regarding this I am not aware of it. Perhaps someone else can jump in or one of the MS guys who knows the answer here.

Bill