John,
Your approach works fine if the application is run from within VFP5, but there are some mitigating circumstances which I didn't mention in the original post.

1) This application is needs to run as a stand-alone and I am not showing the main VFP window, so having ShowWindow for MANSHI set to default (in screen) doesn't allow it to be visible.

2) I'm hiding ORDR before showing MANSHI, so I can't have ShowWindow set to In Top Level Form either, as the top level form is hidden.

I think you're right that a thinking shift is required. It seems that what I'm trying to do is a very simple thing. Your help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob

>Rob ---
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>Maybe a thinking shift is required here. By definition, a top-level form is modeless and acts as a parent to child forms. Maybe what you want to do is leave your WindowType=Modal, set Desktop back to .F. (this is not a desktop form, it's a child of ORDR), and reset ShowWindow to default. Then look at changing the AlwaysOnTop property to true.
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>>I'm calling screen MANSHI from the Click method of a button on screen ORDR. I want the user to interact with MANSHI and close it before the code in the Click method continues. I have set the following on MANSHI:
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>>WindowType = 1-Modal screen
>>ShowWindow = 1-As Top Level Form
>>Desktop = .T.
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>>Regardless, the Click method continues execution and wreaks havoc. There are two other screens sitting in the background (besides ORDR) as top level forms that have been hidden.
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>>Any ideas why this is happening? This is making me bonkers!
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>> TIA,
>>Rob