>On the main screen(top level form) which has several fields, how do I get the cursor to focus on the first field when the program starts. Right now the screen doesn't seem activated until I use the mouse. I tried setfocus() in the init method, but that didn't have any effect. I need to use the mouse and click on the first field to start entering data.
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>The menu on the main screen comes up fine, however, the shortcut keys do not work. Alt plus the underscored letter in the menu doesn't have any effect. I can click on the menu items and they work fine.

Hello, Gaylen.

The problem is that when you instantiate a to level form, it just behaves as if you had launched and external application, but the one that keeps active (altough invisible) is VFP.

As you said, the form's caption appears dimmed as it is not active, therefore you cant set focus to it, nor activate the menu using Alt. This is a strange behavior just during development time. Once you build an exe that launches the form without showing VFP desktop at all, it will dissapear and your form will work as expected.

Remember to include a config.fpw in your project that includes the SCREEN=OFF directive, to avoid the desktop to appear at all.

Just give it a try. If you still have some problems then, just told me.

Hope this helps.