Your FOR EACH...ENDFOR creates and uses its own copy of the lo var, not the one from your Local declaration.

You have to transfer the object reference to a an actual memory variable like you have done in your second example and that is why it works.

Thats also why the lo variable continures to show a .f. in the locals window.

HTH,


>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.
>>
>>
>>>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
>>>