Thanks but that's not what I am wanting to do - my application is made up of a top-level form (frmDesktop) with a tree-view control on it - double-clicking on various nodes of the tre-view launches new forms - no problem...

When a user adds a customer using one of the child forms - when they save the record I ask the question "Do you want to add a Pet for this customer?" - if they reply yes I want to close this current child form and launch another child form called frmAddPets - all the forms are launched through double-clicking the tree-view - it checks the node value and the creates a new instance of whatever form I want frmAddPets for example...

My question is from the child form - how do I set pNodeValue which is a property of frmDesktop and then programmatically trigger a doubleclick on the tree-view within frmDesktop...

_screen.activeform references the current child form
this.parent doesn't work

Any ideas?

Thanks again