From: nomail@nospam.com   
      
   > Sorry for jumping in late, but why not have a stub form that you open.   
   > All   
   > it does is check to see if your main form is open.  If it is, it uses it.   
   > If not, it opens it.  Either way, the stub form then immediately closes.   
   > Sounds simple?   
      
   Sure....and I do appreciate all suggestions,   
   but as Rick surmised I really wanted to have the code in the form itself,   
   due to various reasons.   
      
   In the opening paragraph of the initial posting,   
   I think you will find that I was aware of what you were mentioning,   
   but desired it to be internal to the form,   
   and not in an external script,library, or form.   
      
   Thank you for the suggestion.   
      
      
   I did post my final solution on 7/27/2008,   
   which ended up being about 30 lines of code,   
   which is small enough for what I was hoping to do.   
      
   I have since created a custom object,   
   which I do by placing a box object on a form,   
   and then I place custom code in it.   
   I name my object, with a "co" prefix (Custom Object),   
   and then I put the code for this method into the object.   
   Also, I modify property of an object to make it not visible at run time.   
      
   I then added the object to my object repository,   
   ( a blank form located somewhere).   
      
   Inside the code of the method in the custom object,   
   some may find this an interesting technique.   
      
   I comment out sample calling code,   
   between the method declaration line and the opening var as follows:   
      
      
   method isFormOpeningAlreadyOpen() logical   
      
    sample code to be cnp to form init method   
   {   
   if coOneInstance.isFormOpeningAlreadyOpen() then   
    eventInfo.setErrorCode(canNotArrive)   
    close()   
    return   
    endif   
   }   
      
   var   
      
   ...   
   endmethod   
      
      
   Between the curly braces { and },   
   (which are handy to comment out multiple lines at once),   
   is the code that goes into init section of the form.   
      
   Now when I want to add this behavior to a new form,   
   I launch my form goodies form,   
   copy and paste the custom object to the desired form,   
   and then copy and paste code from this method in the object,   
   to the init section in a form.....total time now, less than a minute,   
   and the code is acceptably small enough for me   
      
      
   Robert Wiltshire   
      
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