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>>I definitely wouldn't put READ EVENTS in Activate. In fact, you don't need READ EVENTS for a modal form, so just remove those.
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>>Tamar
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>But Yikes, as I thought. When no READ EVENTS is present the code blows right through the FORM and returns to the calling .PRG, Tried both MODAL and NON-MODAL.
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>This is an old-school PRG application and I simply want it to call a form. So I have the calling .PRG doing this:
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> DO FORM Programs\CourtSt NAME frmCourtSt LINKED
> RELEASE frmCourtSt
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>The form has
>.Activate - READ EVENTS (which indeed does 'activate' it nicely.)
>.Unload - CLEAR EVENTS
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>But then it won't go away when I "X" it. It appears to remain active and will still do stuff. If I click outside the form's area, it will then disappear but maybe it's not gone because the calling .PRG doesn't resume. Session is whacked.
>I know I'd done something similar about a decade ago once I'd figured every little snitty item. lol Drag.

This sounds like a case where you have created some reference to the form in your program. That is you might have created a var such as oForm = Thisform and oForm still exists in your prg. You must release it before the form will go away.