Did you change the main form to a top-level form? Top-level forms can't be modal.

>hey,
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>I have this app. that I need to strip down. I grabbed all the forms form the origonal project and the related code, placed it in a new project, made the required changes. Mosly ok.
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>All the forms are set to modal on the property sheet. I checked for code that might change the windowtype property of the form - none. All of the forms now act as modeless!
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>any ideas why ( it all works well in the origonal! )
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>thanks
>- jer