mark,

There's no problem keeping a modeless startup form visible during menu access. It sounds like your code is causing the release of the form. You can use the debugger to step through the code and see exactly when it happens. You can fire up the debugger inside your code like this:

activate window trace
suspend

From there you can single step through your code.

>In my vfp6 frameworked apps.I have a startup form which come on screen in place and in time. Also this apps. has a standard menu with predesignd choices. If I select something like 'Open ..' then after message 'No documents difined ...' (which is right) my startup form disappears. It just gets released. Is framework 'not smart enough' to see what to release?