Well, normally you'd want to hide the VFP screen when you're running a top-level form. I don't know of a specific discussion on ShowWindow and WindowType, but you could start one. Did you try to play around with these at all?

>I discovered that part of the problem was that I was hiding the VFP screen. If I don't hide it, everything works OK. If I set the Menu Form to Top-level, Modeless and then the various child screens as IN-Top-Level, Modal. They no longer behave like a modal screen. But if I don't hide the main screen and set the child screens to In Screen, Modal, everything works. I really want to hide the main VFP screen though. Is there a discussion or description somewhere of how and when the various ShowWindow and WindowType properties are best used and their effects? Thanks for your help.
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>>There was a similar thread going in FoxForum.com called "WindowType resets itself??" under the General category. The crux of the situation was that VFP makes top-level forms non-modal, and the only place you can really set it back is the form's Load, Init, or Show method, the Show being the best place to do this since it has a parameter to determine the style.
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>>>I have an app I am trying to convert from VFP3.0 to VFP6.0. It has a main form that is MODELESS and several other MODAL forms. I hide the main VFP screen and the Main Menu form is set as TOP LEVEL, MODELESS. The other forms are ShowWindow - In Top Level, Desktop - FALSE, MODAL. But they don't behave modally. What am I doing wrong?
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