>Hi,
>I wanted to display a form for data entry. I found that I needed to enable my menus and thus I had to make the form modeless. However, when I called DO FORM, the form just momentarily appeared and then disappeared. Help. What should I do?

>I am porting on old FP 2.x program into VFP5.0 / VFP6.0.

>Any reply would be a great help!

>Thanks
>Ian

let me know how you fixed this. i am in a situation very similar to yours. i am moving a 2.6 to 5.0. everytime i "do form" on a modeless form, it also immediately starts the unload code. i usually do a "do form formxxx name _formxxx linked" for my modal forms. this way i can reference _formxxx in procedure code (i.e. - on key esc _formxxx.release). someone said something about "linked to a variable that is out of scope". maybe my _formxxx needs to be declared "public _formxxx". also maybe my linked should be "linked formxxxvar" and also declared "public formxxxvar". do not know.

anyway - i solved my problem by saving the form as a class (selection from the file menu) into a class library. then in code:

public oformxxx
oformxxx=CREATEOBJECT("formxxx")
oformxxx.SHOW(2)
with oformxxx
.visible = .t.
.alwaysontop = .t.
endwith

obviously you still need a "read events", but this makes the form continue to stay active while you wait on your read events.

brenda