>This wouldn't help if your whole application were invisible but it would take care of the other issues.

If this is the case, the parameter you suggested would be blank, and the _screen.visible would be .F. So what you do is make the form Top-Level. THe reason you wouldn't always want teh messagebox as top-level is they can't be modal, thus, require a read events, which typical isn't avaiable everywhere in the app.

So, when a main screen hasn't been shown yet, TopLevel and READ EVENTS.