Are FPD 2.5 screens use foundation Read? It's not very compatible with READ EVENTS part.
I would try to issue in the activate of the form with the fingerprint scanner ActiveX

* Activate
Thisform.Lockscreen = .T.
Thisform.Lockscreen = .F.

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>What we've got going on is we have an ActiveX component that handles out biometrics. We have another ActiveX component that simulates an Outlook type To-Do manager. We also have a portion of our application that was originally written in FPD 2.5 that was designed to be a Screen Generator type application that would allow users to create their own custom forms (but they don't) and we call it eForms.
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>When one of these eForms is called from the To-Do manager and requires the user to electronically sign something using the fingerprint scanner, the fingerprint scanner form comes up, but does nothing. It seems to be that the ActiveX component is not running.
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