>So, the moral of the story is that there is a VFP6 bug: The Desktop setting is not ignored and will cause your Close button to disable in the parent, top-level form IF set to .T.; therefore, leave it False.
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>Bruce: I'll leave you the honor of posting a FAQ on this here at the UT? Or email MS because this deserves a KB IMHO.

I don't know, John -- always happy to have honor :), and glad you have it working better, but...something's still not right. For one thing, I set Desktop = .T., and it has no effect for me, the way I have my app set up. For another, I've never seen a disabled Close button at any time in vfp, unless closable is .F. I think your top-level method still needs some adjusting...

Have you tried screen = off in config, and removing the _screen.hide? and maybe setting focus to something on top-level before launching modal?