Leroy

I would suggest releasing that form as soon as you retrieve the value. And what happens if this.parent.valid() fails?

>Thanks for all of the help. I finally got it.
>I had to start over but it only took about 10 minutes.
>This is the list of properties that I used
>
>In the button that calls it I have:
>

>PROCEDURE Click
>  oMyState = CREATEOBJECT('getstateform')
>  oMystate.show()
>  lcMyState = oMyState.thisState
   oMystate.release()
>  THIS.PARENT.RFI_TEXTBOX1.VALUE = ALLTRIM(lcMystate)
>  THIS.PARENT.VALUE = ALLTRIM( lcMystate)
>  THIS.PARENT.VALID()
>ENDPROC
>
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