Sorry, I am afraid I didn't finish reading your message when I first replied.

When you open a form, you can't access it directly by the form name (as in the .Name property).

From within a form, you can access its properties with ThisForm, for example:

ThisForm.Caption = "This is a form"

To be able to refer to a form from outside, you can open a form with:

local loMyForm
do form MyForm name loMyForm

or:

do form MyForm name loMyForm linked

Then, you can use the variable loMyForm to access the form's properties.

loMyForm.Caption = "Form controlled from outside"

>Hi,
>
>This might be silly, but I have been out of touch in FP for sometime and thi small thing bothers me.
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>I am trying to have a small messagebox or some sort of box indicate the status of the program at various times (maybe on a successful login, loading in files, searching for info).. I want a status box.
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>I am trying to figure if messagebox() can help me, but I dont want the user to press ok or cancel..it should be just FYI.
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>I also can use a form with a text box in it, which will have a variable X as its control source and X is global. So I can put whatever message i need in X and I want to be able to call the form so that the box pops up wherever I call it with the message I send.
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>Now whenever I am calling statusform.show, It throws me a message object not found. Am I missing something really basic ? Or have I forgotten the way fox works ? Please help by giving some ideas as to display the status (other than wait window nowait)
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>thanks
>
>dinesh