>Hi Antonio,
>
>The only solution to this problem as far as I can see is to use a disabled form (enabled = .F.). You then are able to present a GUI on a form without having the parent form losing focus.
>Then the challenge is to make sure mouseclicks and hovering effects work as expected. I can see that work with timers and the good old ON MOUSE CLICK commands, but there definately will be work involved in that.
>
>Walter,
>

In FoxyClasses dtControl (Date, Datetime or Time) I used DateTimePicker activex to overcome that problem and it works wonderfully well.