Jess - this may be of some help to you. I have a calendar application that floats without the main fox window. The app is launched from a .prg in the project. This is the code:

*gocalendar.prg
on shutdown do closeit

_screen.visible = .f.
SET PATH TO e:\chroncal\SOURCE
SET CENTURY ON
DO FORM calendar
READ EVENTS


procedure closeit

THISFORM.RELEASE
CLOSE DATABASES
QUIT