You want to close the "waitwind" form from the calling form? If that's what you mean, you can use the NAME part of DO FORM to give it a name you can control it with. Then use the keypress of the form to catch keypresses. I'm blanking on how to catch the mouse, but there's probably a way.

Michelle


>I am having a small problem with a new "wait window"-type form I've created for my app.
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>I need to call this form ("WaitWind") and pass it some text, which it displays in the middle of the screen. So far, so good.
>Then I need to return the focus back to the object that called the WaitWind form.
>Once control has returned, and keypress or mouseclick anywhere needs to close that WaitWind form off. This is where I am stuck.
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>Any suggestions?