Subject Re: closing form From Milind Nighojkar <milinigh@yahoo.com> Date Thu, 25 Nov 2021 12:14:50 -0500 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Hi Ken, Thanks for the pointer. I already had adopted that as per your earlier reply on 'progress bar' query I had raised few days back. Additionally I observed that I had made a minor mistake in form declaration say f = new app_form() which is the main form and other forms called from this form had same declaration f = new app_form(). It seems it got clashed. I changed the declaration and gave different  names and problem got resolved of closing form and memerory access denied issue. Regards Milind Nighojkar Ken Mayer Wrote: > On 11/22/2021 6:18 AM, Milind Nighojkar wrote: > > Scenerio. form A is opened > > Wanted to close this form > > Iuused a syntax : CLOSE FORMS A > > Get error : No such form A > > > > Any suggestions > > How are you opening form a? > > do forma.wfm > > or > > set procedure to forma.wfm > fFormA = new formaForm() > fFormA.open() > > ? It makes a huge difference. > > If you're doing it the first way, that gets tricky, and as Akshat points > out, you should look at findInstance(). > > However, I almost never use the first way, because the second gives me > the ability to directly control the forms. If I have a situation where > my code is doing a bunch of stuff, and I need to close form A from it, > using the above method, I can do: > > fFormA.close() > > And that will do the trick. > > Ken > > > -- > *Ken Mayer* > Ken's dBASE Page: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase > The dUFLP: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/index.htm#duflp > dBASE Books: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Books/dBASEBooks.htm > dBASE Tutorial: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Tutorial/00_Preface.htm > dBASE Web Tutorial: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/WebTutorial/00_Menu.htm