Many thanks for you help and time looking into this. I believe we'll adopt the second approach that Anton suggests of not using the VFP screen.

Mace


>Yes, you're right, VFP-window modal state is controlled by VFP not by Windows OS. And there's permanent bug related to modal windows in VFP. Something like that was going on when I was creating modal window while another application was active.
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>So... You may temporary hide _SCREEN while showing modal window or not use VFP Screen at all (as I do).
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>- Anton