Tom,

I had a similar problem. I have an app that starts with a login form and project selection form that are in the VFP _SCREEN. After this I would set _SCREEN.Visible=.F. and DO my Top-Level Form. My form would appear but would never be initially selected. So I changed the .WindowState property to 1-Minimized and in the forms .Activate Event I put This.WindowState=0 (Normal) and now it works great. HTH

>Hi Erik,
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>The answer to your question is Yes and No...I have one program that is launched from another program (Canto Cumulus)as a script and actually I had always thought that was the reason for the anomaly. But, I have created another program that is a stand alone and I get the same result.
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>I then experimented with some dummy exe's I created to try and duplicate the situation and, sure enough, it happens with all of them unless I set the ShowWindow prop as maximized.