Thanks for the tip Marcia. This one had me thinking that I was seeing things when it happened to me. Fortunately there is a solution.

Bernard

>.... control doesn't return to what should be the active batch control form - focus drops to the form behind it (the control centre form the batch form was called from). The background form can be moved around, but nothing executes like button pushes etc, and the foreground form that should have the focus decides to play dead.
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>This code in the form class's Activate that your modal forms are based on - if you are using base classes (and if you are -tsk! tsk! tsk!), this must go in the activate of each form:
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>IF This.WindowType = 1  && Modal
>  This.AlwaysOnTop = .T.
>  This.AlwaysOnTop = .F.
>ENDIF
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