>>>>>Thank you
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>>As someone else mentioned, you may try to use it exclusively, trap the error and react to see if it is already opened by someone else.
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>Yes I had to fall back on that method. Now if I may be so bold
>in getting back to my previous problem which you probably painfully remember, My form 'getname' works well when issued by itself, as I took the 'read event' out of the code in the activate form section.
>I thus inserted that 'read event' command in a prg one line before I issue the statment 'do form getname' and NOW the form flashes briefly and gets ignored!

Usually, we put the READ EVENTS on the last line of the application class setup. Then, from your menu, when you instantatiate a form, it will remain on the desktop.