>>>>In VFP 5: I have a big old honkin' form with about 400 objects; I call another form from a command button. The second form is also a formset, and is modal. The first form is not.
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>>>>The second form refuses to appear. Any ideas? Using simple
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>>>> Do Form SecForm
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>>>>syntax, nothing esoteric.
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>>>Firstly, check AlwaysOnTop property in first form. Secondly, just to make sure, issue this.show() in Activate event of the second form.
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>>If she is using the 'Do Form' clause then the Show() should be fired automatically. That is the main difference between Do Form & Createobject.
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>That's right, but I really saw some forms (very balky) which opened just after Show() was fired in Activate event.


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Tom