>>>I posted this question the other day. No response. Anyone know the answer?
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>>>I have 5 main forms in my app. All can be open at the same time. When one is maximized the others are "normal" and as I cycle through them only the active form is maximized. I can watch the behavior in the watch window. The windowstate is 2 for the active one and 0 for the rest.
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>>>My problem is that when I close the one on top, the one behind it doesn't maximize. It's driving my testers crazy.
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>>>Is this standard behavior in vfp 5? Is there something that I'm doing wrong.
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>>>please help
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>>>paul
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>>Normal behaviour for a form is keeping of form size, regardless of active status. If you want to make active form maximized then you could add
>>This.WindowState=2
>>in Form.Activate event
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>Thanks. I thought that was the case.
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>However, I don't want the forms to be maximized all the time. I want my users to be able to position them and size them to their liking, including maximized. The settings are stored to an INI file when the exit the form.
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>The code you mentioned will work but it's just a band-aid. I'd like to understand what's causing the current behavior.
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>The only other thing that's different about my forms is that I run the with the following code:
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>public frmExecs
>do form execs name frmExecs linked
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>It makes it easier to reference and release the form later on.
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>paul

Probably, you misunderstood me. If don't want your forms to be maximized then just don't set WindowState=2 either in code or in property sheet.