>It sounds like Click event of the button doesn't fire on the first mouse click.
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>>It appears to have focus. The form only has three other controls and they are labels. It is just a fancy message box to draw attention to the details of the getdir() coming up next on the main form.
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>>Everything works fine...you just have to click OK twice.
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I have had this same behavior with buttons in VFP 9 SP1. Seems like it looses the focus and thus requires two clicks; so it is not just you.