>... MS states this behavior is by design... In other words, a real screw up on their part that may be fixed in the next release in January... Talk at U Later...
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>>not likely -- this has been part of their 'design' for as long as i can remember...
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>Hmmm...But why not use just 2 forms and keep the one that is not the main one
>Visible=False?? And then show it when you need to? In this case you won't have
>to deal with their screw-ups!

because we have one main screen, from which several other [modal] screens can be displayed, from which several more [modal] screens can be displayed. All of this because 16bit vb can't have more than 255 objects on a form...


...Speaking of which, as I've been saying all along:
>

>    Whatever has come from MS, - has come from people who wrote EDLIN !!!
>

>After all, even FP, before MS got their hands on it, though had its limitation, was
>still a much cleaner product than what became of it after Billy The Gates made
>his consequtive billion :) I just hope that one day either Borland will recover
>or someone else will come forward and the days of MS will happily end to the
>greatest pleasure of all hard-working programmers :)