>George,
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>I'm not sure about the inner details at all, but your explanation sounds as feasible as any other. I don't think VFP is treating our Top-Level form windows as the "real" owner of all the other child windows of the process. I think they have the dialogs hard-wired as child windows of _screen.
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I agree. BTW, I thought that I'd heard that 6.0 was going to bring some changes in this area (SDI forms), but I haven't been able to find anything that indicates that there has been. I wonder if the same problem occurs there.