You need to clarify if what you are doing is all happening within the same instance of VFP, or if you are actually firing off new instances (that is, new and separately running instances of _VPF.application; each will appear as separate a application in Windows task manager).

If the latter, you can do it by setting a timer in the Spawner, minimize it, and polling on timer events to iterate windows via Windows API calls (similar to the check for single instance strategy). When the Spawnee is no longer found, the Spawner again comes forward.

>I have a VFP program that is a menu that calls other VFP programs and then the menu program minimizes to the task bar. When the called VFP program quits, how can I bring the minimized VFP window back to normal view?