>>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?
...or a property of some of your global object, or even _vfp or _screen... Or you can have a forms manager object and keep the reference there.