>Eric,
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>>I have a modal form. I want to set it up so that when the user clicks anywhere ouside that from it automatically closes. Can I do this? If so, how? I tried to use the deactivate and lostfocus events of the form, but it didnt work.
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>The method would work with a non-modal form.
>If You would make it non-modal and put Thisform.release in the deactivate-event that should be "like" modal and behave as you want.
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>HTH

This would work if I had the form pre-created. Im creating the form from a class and when I execute the .show method of the form object it shows the from. If the from is not modal, execution keeps going in the next few lines i read some data from the form's objects and then make a call to realese the form.

In the form itself I have calls to .hide which return exuecution to the code that called the .show method.

Does this make sense?