David,

Why aren't you using aselobj() to get a reference to the current design surface and use that object reference for your builder?

This might also be tied to the new Dockable state of the windows in VFP7 I don't have it handy to test right now.

>In VFP 6.0 SP5 (or SP3?) the following code worked:
>
>MODI FORM (myform) NOWAIT
>
>FOR ln = 1 TO _screen.FormCount
> IF _screen.Forms(ln).Name = "form1"
> lo = _screen.Forms(ln)
> EXIT
> ENDIF
>ENDFOR
>lo.Caption = "I can change the form's caption in developer mode!"
>
>I could run this code from within an APP, EXE or PRG and use it to modify the form in design mode. But in VFP 7.0 the form being modified is not shown in the _screen.Forms collection.
>
>Was this an undocumented feature that was taken out of VFP 7.0? Will it be in VFP 8.0? I was able to create several form builders using this technique and they have saved me hours.
>
>What happened to one of my favorite features of VFP?