>>>If a control encounters an error during INIT, is there any way to get the form to discontinue trying to instantiate (is that a word?)?
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>>>I know the form doesn't exist at that point, so am I forced to use a public variable and have all controls check that public variable before INITing?
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>>The form isn't fully instantiated at this point but it does exist and controls can reference it's properties.
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>Hi Sergey,
>Do you know of a way to CANCEL the form, so it doesn't keep instantiating. I can see now that I can set a flag in the form, but can you think of a better way?

It doesn't seems right to me that control decides if form would instantiating or not. Can you put those checks in the form's Load instead?