The selection of the popup invokes a browser window of specific urls to open in vfp screen (previous thread 1451027). I had a message on top of the popup instructing the user of shortcut key to close the internet window and go back to normal screen. The problem is when the popup is reactivated to change the url, my message did not appear because the e browser was now showing as screen. By creating a window for the popup i could retain the message on top of the new window and visible while using the popup.

I had originally placed [6.Close Browser] as one of the choies in the popup however i found that by pressing that when the browser was not active resulted in an error message and i could not control the error in this case. So to lessen the liklihood of error i created a shortcut key as the only retreat.

alternately you might be able to help me with that end instead - the way i get rid of the browser screen is ox.hide
If ox is not visible i get the error message. Is there a way to test if ox is visible or if the object ox has been created - then i could circumvent the error message that way.

thanks
k

PUBLIC ox
ox=NEWOBJECT("myformx")