Hi Christof,

>Hi Nick,
>
>>I meant that you can make form Modal on the fly conditionally
>
>Graeat idea and a cool tip!
>
>>this works , but I am testing this now and having troubles with returning to modeless state.
>
>Because you never return to the first method. What happens is that Show(1) is executed and termination halts here (it's a modal form). The form doesn't become modeless, until it returns to the line after Show(1).

That's what I figured.


The second code snippets hides the form, but immediately shows it again, though at this point the form is still modal. Since a modeless form displayed from a modal form automatically becomes modal, as well, nothing seems to happen. However, if you write it this way:
>

>If Thisform.lAddMode
>   Thisform.Hide()
>   Thisform.Show(1)
>   Thisform.Show(2)
>Endif

>and then use Thisform.Hide() to make the form modeless again, it works.

Actually

Thisform.Show(1)
Thisform.Show(2)

does not work in my tests, because after the

Thisform.Show(1)

the form becomes visible and VFP comes up with an error "Cannot change modality of a visible form"