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Main program form looses focus when openning?
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Visual FoxPro
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Forms & Form designer
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There are a few ways. You could do it as a modal form or form.AllwaysOnTop = .T. for example.

Note that your _screen.visible = .F. will cause flicker. It is better (in an exe) to compile it with a config.sys file containing the line screen=off

HTH


>I have a small program with one form, the program consists of one prg (set as main) and the form. Here is the code for the .prg
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>_screen.visible = .F.
>_screen.caption = "My Program"
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>do form main
>read events
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>The form is a pretty basic form and has the following properties.
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>AutoCenter = .T.
>BorderStyle = 2
>MDIForm = .T.
>ShowWindow = 2
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>Everything else for the form is set to the default. My problem is that when I compile and run my executable the form is not launched with the focus set to it. If I have other apps open half the time it will open underneath them. How can I get the form to launch with focus on it?


Alex Feldstein, MCP, Microsoft MVP
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