>I have created a form to be a status box... I need to tell if that form, which was opened with....
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>do form myform name myform
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>is currently open or not prior to writing updates to it. Wexist() doesn't cut it. I found that out the hard way when I accidentally opened over 300 instances of the form before my computer said - 'YEAH RIGHT!!!'
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>Help!!!!

Peter,
With name clause if 'myform' is in scope you could test it as if you would do for any object.
OTOH for this specific purpose you could do :

do form myform
* and check with
if type('myform')='O' ;
  and !isnull(myform) ;
  and myform.baseclass = 'Form'

This relies on the fact that a form instantiated with 'do form' could be referenced by its .scx name (only for the first instance).
Cetin