You can also try thisform.paint() or thisform.draw()

>Agnes,
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>I have a class formA, it has a pageframe and the pageframe has 14 pages. These pages are different reorting selection criteria.
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>Page 1 is the default and controls which of the page becomes active.
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>After selections on these other pages, they jump back to page 1 and click on a "Report" command which then fires a child form and it is NOT modal
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>Close the form and all is ok Except if the selection involved jumping to page2 on formA.
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>If page2 becomes active before the child form is opened, and you drag and move the child form around, you can then see it messing up the parent form behind. Close the child form the parent form stays muggy.
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>If I click on a control (an area where a control is) the control will respond but it does not clearly show.
>
>Regards
>
>Mathias
>
>>try
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>>*....
>>*ShowChild Modal?
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>>ThisForm.LockScreen = .T.
>>ThisForm.LockScreen = .F.
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>>*sometime try also
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>>ACTIVATE WINDOW (THISFORM.NAME)
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>>

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>>BTW I puzzled with screens and pages. Do I asume you have a form with a pageframe and you talk about page2? And this form instiates asecond form?
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>>And that only this page refresh and nothin else?
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>>What happens if you switch to an other page?
>>What happens if you click a object (textbox, checkbox etc.) in the smeared area? Do you see tooltiptext (if any) of the objects?
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>>
>>Agnes
>>>
>>>Sorry for the gibberish. No it doesn't appear to have any effect all.
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>>>Let me try to try and make it clearer, I have a pageframe with 14 pages.
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>>>The problem happens if I jump to page2 at anytime first (on the parent form), then launch a child form. When I close the child form, you can see that the screen area with controls where page2 was refreshes and clears ok, the rest doesn't.
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>>>There is nothing special about page2 so this might be misleading.
>>>
>>>I tried 'manually' running code:
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>>>ThisForm.LockScreen = .F.
>>>ThisForm.Cls()
>>>ThisForm.Refresh()
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>>>in the dblclick event of the form. It has not visual effect, the forms stays muggy.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>