I lost something here.
Why is it out of scope? The locals window still shows that it exists, just the wrong type(). I assume that means that it's still in scope.

>You have gone out of scope in the FOR...ENDFOR in the first example without making a memory variable reference to the lo object being evaluated.
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>>I'm using VFP 7.0
>>
>>This doesn't work
>>

>>myForm.method()
>>  LOCAL lo, lc
>>  lc = WPARENT( THIS.NAME )
>>  FOR EACH lo IN _VFP.FORMS
>>    IF lo.NAME == lc
>>      EXIT                             && Locals window shows lo as object here
>>    ENDIF
>>  ENDFOR
>>  IF TYPE( 'lo.NAME' ) = 'C' ;         && Locals window shows lo as .F. here
>>      AND lo.WINDOWSTATE = 1
>>    lo.WINDOWSTATE = 0
>>  ENDIF
>>

>>but this does
>>

>>myForm.method()
>>  LOCAL lo, lc, loParent
>>  lc = WPARENT( THIS.NAME )
>>  FOR EACH lo IN _VFP.FORMS
>>    IF lo.NAME == lc
>>      loParent = lo
>>      EXIT                             && Locals window shows lo as object here
>>    ENDIF
>>  ENDFOR
>>  IF TYPE( 'loParent.NAME' ) = 'C' ;   && Locals window shows lo as .F. here
>>      AND loParent.WINDOWSTATE = 1
>>    loParent.WINDOWSTATE = 0
>>  ENDIF
>>