>>I have a form called MENU that has a bunch of buttons and other controls on it. This form calls a bunch of other PRG's (hence 'MENU'). It seems to be working mostly correctly but the system started sorting thru a bunch of records prior to running the READ in the PRG that is called. When I go to debug, however, everytime I get the system to pause, the MENU form pops back up and takes control of all input. This might somehow be happening because all of the controls on the form except one have a gotfocus method that setfocuses to the one main control on the form. But the form is hidden at the time that this happens.
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>>I currently am doing the following:
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>>Initially:
>> DO FORM Menu
>> READ EVENTS
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>>Then from the CLICK method on one of the button controls:
>>THISFORM.HIDE()
>>DO Edit
>>THISFORM.SHOW()
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>>Any ideas?
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>>Thanks in advance...
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>I am sorry, but could you tell shortly what is wrong. Doesn't your form appear again or something else? BTW, is it modal or modeless form?

It is modeless. the problem is that it _DOESN'T_ disappear. Well actually, it does, but as soon as the command window or Trace window activate, the form reactivates and I cannot access either the command window or the trace window. therefore I cannot step thru the code after the form (or even in the form.button.click method) because the form keeps popping up. the form is modeless and is not set to always on top.