If I have only the name of a form(as a string) how can I open the form?

This doesn't work.

I hope this isn't a daft question!

Not daft.
I assume you have a set of different forms, "ThisForm", "ThatForm" etc.
You also have a set of criteria for deciding which form you want….

The way I have always done this is along the lines of

Have a nice weekend 8-)

b

 Thanks Bruce
the project has about 20 forms and which may change/increase/decrease with time, also I'm logging form usage in an sql database.
 
The forms are opened from a menu event so: "MyMenus_Click()" allows me to retrieve the name of the form to be opened.  If I could the open that form using the string returned from the database  the code would be greatly simplified.

Maybe ? Haven't tried it.
b

 That works just fine.
Enjoy the whisky.
Bill

If you created many sub-Forms, you could do this:

has been working fine.

Would it be possible to open a given form (knowing only the form's name) from a library?
At the moment I get the error "Cannot load class 'form name'. File or directory does not exist.

Any ideas would be appreciated

Thanks

Does this help?

 Thank you cogier, not sure if it helps at the moment.  I have several projects which use a library (say MyLib).  I wish to have a function in MyLib which will open an existing form in the project.  Hope that makes sense.
Bill

 Sorry Bill, but I don't understand. Can you post some code we can look at.

Hi Bill,
I use this subroutine to open all but the main form in all of my projects.
I declare it in the a project module where all the generic subroutines & functions are called from.
It 'should' work from your MyLib but obviously testing is required…

 Thanks Quin, that'll do nicely.
Regards