How about making your messagebox form olepublic, make it a top level form and it should not depend on _screen. Build as EXE comserver. Now starting the form via Createobject("vfp.messagebox") (if you called your ole messagebox project vfp) you would start a new process, which may not raise any events in the calling form. It would not be modal, but you could handle waiting for the users choice.

Bye, Olaf.