>BTW, I two am using VFP6 SP5.
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>>hmmm
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>>I tried his experiment and that is not what happened to me. It fires once when I click on the commandButton, and again when I click in the new form (or close the new form). This makes perfect sense to me.
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>>>This seems normal at first, but then, the lostfocus fires again.
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>>This sounds like there is some sort of delay between lostfocus() firing the second time. Are you clicking somewhere with the mouse, causing it to fire again?
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>>BTW, I'm using VFP6 SP5.

I also am on VFP6 with SP5 - this little really is bizarre behaviour and is the root of my problem... I have eliminated the oddness of the active x control - it's almost as if the second form adopts the same lostfocus code of the first!