>>OK - we need to talk..
>>You are right: my command should... be:goform.helpdesk_maintform1.cmdenterquery.Enabled=.t....
>>THIS WORKS AND I AM HAPPY!!! - but I want to understand what I am doing here.
>>DO FORM updatcal name goform linked - what does this do? does it put my form
>>in memory so I can reference the objects on the form. I always thought DO FORM
>>calls a form?
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>It's roughly the same as CREATEOBJECT() in that it creates a memory variable by which you can manipulate the form and its objects. It still runs the form, but you now have access to it from the outside.
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>BTW, you might want to re-read Ed's posts. He's right about the correct OOP way of doing this.

I try to do everything as "OOP-as-possible" but to do it that way wouldn't you have to save every form you create via the form-designer as a class in order to utilize CreateObject()? Either that or do it all through code including adding of all the objects and PEMs?