>>>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"
>>>
>>>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
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>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.
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>Chris.

hello chris, how are you?
that's true, the problem is however, if you need to access the previous form later in the 'child' form, you could get a real headache trying get a pointer to the 'parent' form. that's why i always pass the pointer as an parameter. plus if you hide the 'parent' form before you instanciate the new form, there is now active form on the screen. so personaly i realy like the parameter version better.