>>Cetin
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>>Thankyou for doing some tests for me! I now know what the problem is, a good nights sleep always works.
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>>My main form is Top Level and Modeless. The form has a pageframe1 with a button. When I click the button My search form is In Top Level and Modal. Problem: The form doesn't appear!!
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>>I said to you yesterday that I think the problem is to do with having autocenter property on child form set to T. If I remove it then in works!
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>>Wrong: The problem is that I have scroll bars on my main Parent Form. The form did appear only that because its large I would have to scroll down to see the search form.
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>>What a plonker!!!!
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>>Thankyou for your help
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>Believe it or not yesterday I wrote a message similar to the one below and didn't send thinking still there would be some clue it was showing:)
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>"Maybe form is appearing and centering right but mainform's size is small and search form is showing with its left,top negative values. Tempoarily add a messagebox to its activate that shows top, left."
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>I didn't think it was large - and actually centering calculated using viewport is news to me, I don't use forms with scrollbars:) If you included the property that Fabio said it wouldn't happen in the first place:
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>SearchForm.Desktop = .t.
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>PS: I didn't know Desktop=.t. behavior. Thanks Fabio.
>Cetin


Hi Cetin,
VFP has a bug that makes problematic the use of a form child (In TOP)
in a form father (AS TOP or In TOP) when ParentForm.ScrollBars is active.
If I find some time the I publish a repro.

Fabio