Thanks Dragan, Stephen and Cetin,

I sort of combined what you all three said and realized I can just issued the following code at runtime and have my dialog box appear:

set libr to all_apps addi
myvar=Createobject("About_dialog",Myparameter)
myvar.show

I didn't know if this would have a performance hit or not, but it is instantaneous. I didn't know if not having the form created already would slow it down. Then I have a release x in the destroy method of the form. It works great.

I supposed that this is part of the big picture of oop in the first place and it works great. Thanks to all of you. -Rick