>>Thanks! Dunno why that was so hard to spot in the docs...
>That's an easy one - Queryunload is a very un-intuitive name, and NoDeault is hardly documented at all :)

Well; when i did searches thru the docs on "stop unload" or "stop release" and such; nothing came up.. but true; if I bothered to look closely at all the events...

Here's one for you.
Same formset; main form is list of cases with officers & beats. click on teh filter button; and the filter form pops up (part of the formset) and then can select filters to display. However, leaving that form up and clicking back on the main case list form; the activate event fires; then the deactivate event (of the main form) and focus returns to the filter form. Why? it's not a modal form. And how do i stop this from happening?

I want the filter form to be visible while there is a filter in effect; and if the filter window is closed; then the filters removed.

In teh activate even I put "thisformset.frmFilter.visible=.f." and the focus problem went away (obviously as there wasn't another form to recieve focus) but that doesn't solve my problem...

ideas?
thanks again!
-josh