local lcCaption lcCaption = [] IF VARTYPE("_screen.activeform") = "O" lcCaption = _screen.activeform.caption ELSE *!* there was no calling form ENDIFThis is also a good way to get an object reference to the parent form for use as needed while the child form is instanciated. You could store that object reference in a property of the child form. Just set that property to .NULL. in the Destroy method of the child form.