Alan,

I am porting a FPW app to run under VFP6
(on the FPW-spr's). I do know, that there are
certain times when neither _screen.forms nor
...pageframe1[...activepage] are usable
(in code or in the debugger).

Usually in the "When" of the old read i can
work with OOP-attributes of the forms.

HTH (probably doesn't fit your spec's...)

thomas