>>Hi,
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>>Can you programmatically close a modal form when a user clicks anywhere outside the form?
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>>TIA
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>I completely forgot (lack of sleep) how make a modeless form to be open? That is, when I make the form modeless and reference it with a LOCAL variable, it opens and closes immediately.
>Is the only way to make the modeless form stay to reference it with the PUBLIC variable?

The reference does not need to be public, but it must persist somehow - for instance, as a property of an active object. "Thisform.ContextMenu", for instance...