>There is a main from (call it a) and menu items to search on specific fields (call one of them b). The serach programs are called from a program which calles the appriate form. The search form moves the record pointer. form a has some navigation buttons which are define in a class library. I want to call the methods that refresh the buttons (i.e. enable then based on record pointer value (top, middle, bottom).
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>Is this possible? If some what are the commands?
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>TIA

You can pass your form to the program, e.g. do MySearch with thisform

mySearch.prg
lparameter toForm
....
toForm.button1.refresh()

Otherwise you can use _screen.ActiveForm reference