Thanks Stefan,

That worked...

Harry

>>I have an application that starts up behind all other open application windows. I'm sure that there is a logical explanation as to why it does it, but I can't figure it out. All my other apps start out on top as they should. The app that I'm having trouble with, has the "main" form as the top level form and it is set to FALSE for "Always on Top" and "Always on Bottom". Window State is Normal, and it is a MODAL form.
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>>Can someone point me in the right direction?
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>Hi,
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>An as-top-level form cannot be modal, i.e. if form.ShowWindow=2, then the .WindowType property is 0 at runtime, even when you set it to 1 in the IDE.
>However, as a workaround for the misbehaving startup, you can toggle form.AlwaysOnTop, e.g. in form.Activate()
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>

>WITH Thisform as Form
>	.AlwaysOnTop = !.AlwaysOnTop
>	.AlwaysOnTop = !.AlwaysOnTop
>ENDWITH
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>
>hth
>-Stefan