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>>>1. is there a way to make a browse window modal?
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>>I've never used it but try looking at the preference clause.
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>do not think the preference clause will help. have a modal form that has a browse window on it. the modal form also has some buttons: add, delete, etc. when the client presses a button i want the browse window to still be visible. would like to always have the browse window visible. and it the buttons take focus want to throw focus quickly back to the browse window. any ideas.
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>also, i do not understand why in my case - the modal form that calls the browse window did not need the SAVE clause of the browse. the modal forms browse window is not destroyed if you click on the underneath form. it just hides behind the modal form. cycle brings it back to the top. yet my other browse windows, called from the toplevelform, were destroyed, unless i used the SAVE clause. do browse windows called from dmodal forms and modless forms behave differently?
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>thanks - brenda

Hi,
You should be able to use the name clause and reference the browse window as an object variable ,then call the activate method.
The window doesn't go away with a modal form because all other program execution is suspended until the modal form is released, except threads used by the form itself.
Sounds to me like you need to use a grid.

Eric K.