Hi Terry,

Failure as in? You mean it goes disabled or remains enabled and just doesn't work?

>I thought I worked out the non-responsive [X] or form Close button issue by placing a "this.show" in the form's activate event. MESSAGEBOX() seems to nullify that option.
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>I think there is a relation between the availability of the [X] Close button and the MESSAGBOX() function, but just haven't isolated the real reason behind the failure of a form's [X] Close.
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>Whats the latest on this issue.