>thanks Al.
>i tried it again in a separate program in isolation simply to see the effect of the window and you are right no shadow window.
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>however in the original program - the command following the activate window is a browse and i'm wondering here if the browse opens up a spearate window with the same window properties underneath the first window.
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>in answer to your question i can actually move both windows. miniimize vfp and restore secondary window still there - there is no duplication of the command activate window temp1

It mostly depends on how you issue your browse. If you say "browse window", then you get a duplicate of the window - but then you don't need to show the original window. Browse will create its own copy of an invisible window.

OTOH, if you say "browse in window", then browse will take over that window and you get no duplicate.

Note that window doesn't have to be created with "create window". You can use a form as well, and then "browse [in] window (myform.name)".