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

I did look at that class in the past, but does not now have the same problem of the outdated GUI and problematic in grids ?

Walter,