Thanks, but I'm wondering how this would work. I want to keep everything based on one form. It's not that I want that form transparant - what I want is a transparant layer to place over that form, effectively "dimming it", and making it look disabled, while I pop up a container-based picklist (for example).

>There is an API call that lets you create transparent forms, which can may work for you. There is a Solution Sample that shows how.
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>>Well, by now we've probably all seen the fancy new thing that many web sites are doing sometimes when they need you to make a choice. They "dim out" the page and put up a "window" over it that focuses your attention on what they need you to do. I've seen it on various sites and they use JQuery or some other JavaScript library to do it, I assume. Anyway, it's kind of a nice technique and I was wondering about doing something like it in a VFP form. Perhaps it could be done with the GDIx tools. I don't think it can be done with a standard image control in VFP. I'm not sure they offer that type of transparancy, but perhaps I've just not hit on the right combination of properties. Anyway, just wondering . . .
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>>Russell Campbell