>>I have a background menu form ("frmMenuMain"). When I DO the "frmCustomer"
>>and from within "frmCustomer", I'd like to set a property which belongs to "frmMenuMain"
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>>How can reference/set a property of another form from within another modal form which is active?
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do frmCustomer with ThisForm

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>in the 'frmCustomer' form init you then have a pointer to the calling form

>LPara ;
>   CallingForm
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>CallingForm.CallingFormPropperty = NewValue
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>hope this helps

Another alternative I've seen offered: Because VFP doesn't update _screen.activeform until the very end of the .init, you get the reference to the previous form for free.

Chris.