>I have a new situation that I am trying to put together a smooth strategy for.
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>The application is a Top-level-form app. The app stores user settings in the registry. On app startup, these settings are retrieved from the registry. If any setting is missing or obsolete, the user is given a form that allows her to update the settings. The form is also callable from the top-level-form menu from the tools pad.
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>The user settings form is currently called from a form method called from form init. If the user cancels out of the settings form, I return .F. from the main form's init.
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>Problem: A form called from a TL form's init cannot be seen unless it is itself a top-level form. A top-level form cannot be modal, and therefore cannot return a result. I could set the form's showwindow property to 'In-Screen', and temporarily show the screen, but this seems kludgy.
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>I am looking for a logical program flow that will get deal with my being forced to choose between "in-screen" and "In top-level form".
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>Another issue I am dealing with is where to place the READ EVENTS in a situation like this.
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>Anybody got any suggestions?

An idea might be to do your check in the main prg. Then you have an IF with two top-level possibilities to launch in main prg:

if settings bad
  launch settings form
else
  launch regular form
endif

Or can you check your settings that early?