>>I am not sure, but I think Thisform.visible=.f. in Show method will do this job too.
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>I used this technique put putting ThisForm.Left=-1000 in my form Init() for special form that does not have a need to be shown on screen.
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>I tried many things about ThisForm.Visible in different places and it didn't work.
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>I never tried the Show() event so I gave it a try when I read your reply. I put a WAIT WINDOW 'SHOW' and ThisForm.Visible=.F. but this does not hide the form.

I remember that I did it once. May be it was Activate event? BTW, right now I am working with a formset, add forms programmatically and they appear invisible first (as VFP manual states).