>In some instances, I need to hide my form before it displays, call a child form, then make the parent form visible again. In the init method of my parent form, I have THISFORM.hide, and it does indeeed hide the form, but I get an error message that says "property hide is read-only". This seems interesting because why would it hide the form it it if really read-only? Using VFP 6 Sp5.
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>Thanks!

Try this instead:

DO form test NAME loTest noshow
*!* do other stuff here
loTest.Show()

if it needs to be shown as modal:

loTest.Show(1)

if it needs to be shown non-modal:

loTest.Show(0)