>i am maintaining someone else's application and i have run into an unusual stumbling block : i cannot get a form to display.
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>When i use createobject to make a form appear and then issue show the form releases from memory.
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>When i use DO FORM and trace the firing of events in the form the event sequence goes something like
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>LOAD , INIT , .... UNLOAD
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>i used messageboxes to observe this behaviour.
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>Regarding the forms in the app that do work properly ...
>when i trace them using SET STEP ON just before a DO FORM is issued.
>I trace through the form ... and guess what ... the form never does appear on the display.
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>When i do not trace the "original" forms they appear fine.
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>i have checked the visible property it is set to true.
>It seems that when the "Show" event fires .. the UNLOAD or RELEASE event fires next.
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>any help is appreciated

i found the problem ..
all the forms that work have as their showwindow property ...
"1 - in top window form"

whereas the forms i created had a showwindow property of "0 - (in Screen)"
however 0 is the default value.

these late nights have gotta stop :)