You lost me here. I don't see the connection between your questions and my question.
What I'm doing here is testing to see if a form's parent is minimized, and if it is set it back to normal. If the form doesn't have a parent, then it's ignored. The fact that I'm calling it from within a form by definition means a form is open. The fact that the forms collection has toolbars is immaterial.

>Two things come to mind:
>
>1. The Forms collection also holds toolbars
>2. What happens if no forms are open?
>
>>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
>>