>>nothing I thought would work did. The ThisForm.LostFocus() event doesn't fire when the user changes to another application, only when they change to another form within a vfp app. ThisForm.DeActivate() works the same way. I couldn't find any events at the _VFP level that would do this. I'm not sure a Windows API call would do it either, since VFP doesn't appear to be able to sense it.
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>>Foxheads, how are you doing this?
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>Jerry,
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>Let me ask you why the heck you'd want to do this in the first place? You are saying that just because I want to switch over and check my email or work on a spreadsheet that the VFP app I'm using must terminate? That's pretty anti-windows behavior. System-Modal behavior was outlawed starting with Win32.

Hey Dave, I should have thought of that! Make the window modal! That might work.
The reason is that folks are roosting on the program. They need to make only one entry per day (hours worked, at the end of the day) but they opening it up at 8:00am and letting it set in the background all day. This is a state agency and many of the PCs are not too whippy, so the more apps they leave open the slower their PC runs.