>How did you add buttons to the form? Why do you base buttons on commandgroup and not on commandbutton?
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>i just dragged the mybuttons class i created based on commandgroup. i used a commandgroup instead of just commandbuttons since im putting 12 buttons in my form. i assumed it is a lot easier to drag all 12 buttons at once using a commandgroup. and i don't know how to do this using a commandbutton.
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>what should i do?

You're missing commandgroup reference

Thisform.< commandgroupname >.cmdClose.visible=.T.