>>>You're doing indefinite loop, why you're surprised?
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>>a). When the form has the focus, no looping....
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>>b) When the form does not have the focus, looping occurs, but I can get focus back.
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>>c) When the form is minimized to the taskbar, looping still occurs, but I cannot Maximize the form or gain control anymore.
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>>That is the surprise.......
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>>I didn't write it.... I am trying to stop the loss of control when minimized (and I am trying to fix this by using READ EVENTS in Mainpops along with a CLEAR EVENTS on the way out.... but that causes problems with the code that is being called.
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>I'm not sure what to suggest. You may have to struggle for a while to have all code fixed to remove loop and switch to read events.

Yeah, I already tried that and BOY what a mess !!!!

It looks like a major rewrite of the POS system, then.