>Hi,
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>I have a form with a custom control (a subclass of ListBox) which will create a form on the fly (to do some editing) with a series of call to ox=CreateObject("form"), ox.addobject("txtName","TextBox"), etc, and then use ox.Show(1) to show it.
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>There is no problem when running in the IDE, but when I built the EXE and run it, that form does not show up at all. Later I found out that form is indeed shown up in the Screen but my application has the Screen made invisible by setting SCREEN=OFF in the config.fpw. FYI all the regular forms in my application have MDIForm=.t.
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>Is there a way to create a form dynamically in that custom control and making the form not showing up in the VFP Screen? Or is there any better way to do it?
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>TIA

You have two ways.

1. move the child form

 ox=CreateObject("form")
 ....
 SHOW WINDOW (ox.name) IN (_screen.ActiveForm.Name)

2. define a form class "childForm" with

  ShowWindow = 1

ox=NEWOBJECT("aliasLib.childForm")