Eric,

Thanks, that helps. Also, I appreciate all the other tips you have put up there!

Can I get a little more clarification?

1) If a form is in a project, is it opened (but not shown?) If so, then if I want the form to go away until the next call should I use .hide or .unload? Is there a difference?

2) Is there a way to associate a textbox with a property or variable? So that when the textbox is edited, the variable/property is updated instead of having to assign the .text value to the variable/property via some function call.

Thanks again,

Fletcher

>Look in the FAQ (or in the downloads) for a message I have posted that use a form like a function. It will answer most of your questions.
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>I can't give you the exact URL now because FAQ and Downloads are not accessible.
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>>Hi all,
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>>I have a form with two buttons. One says Add, the other Edit. They then call a form named frmEdit. But if this is an Add, I want to pass a parameter to the form to tell it to treat things as an Add (vs. Edit mode.)
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>>If I call the forms show method, it appears, but in Edit mode. I can add code after the .show call that then changes the properties, but this only works if the form is not modal.
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>>So my questions are:
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>>1) Can I "open"/instantiate a form without it first being visible?
>>2) Can I pass a parameter to a form (via the Load or non-existant show method)?
>>3) Can I access the .Show method I call to make the form appear even though it is not in the list of available methods? In other words, can I just create a form_show with a set of arguments?
>>4) What would I do if the form were to be modal (or is it persist?)
>>5) Is there a better way to call up a form other than using the .Show method?
>>6) The load is the first method that fires when a form is created. The activate fires everytime the form is activated (I think.) Is there a place I can write code that only executs once, but after all the controls have been instantiated?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Fletcher