>object #1 has focus. if you click on object #2, for argument sake, is there a way to tell that it was a click on object #2 that caused object #1 to loose focus? what i am trying to achieve is...
>if object #1's var is empty when it looses focus, the form is released, unless the cause of the loss of focus was caused by a click on object #2.
>tia - john

You can do this my setting a form property (something like MouseUsed), which gets set to .T. in the MDown method of object #2. Then, in the LostFocus of object #1, activate a timer that fires after 1 second. In the timer method, check if MouseUsed is .T. If it is, set it to .F. and continue running the form. If MouseUsed is .F., release the form.