Also, the first form being modal will prevent Ctrl-F from working form that form or any form below it...because the menu is disabled at that point.

So you have 2 things at work here:

When you make the sub-form modal, it appears. But CRTL-F cannot work, because you are in a modal situation. When you make the sub-form non-modal, I think it is going out of scope. Even if you fix the scope problem with the sub-form, CTRL-F will still not work as long as the parent form is modal.

>it's not _findDialog, that class i have and it is for a search in a .dbf. the find dialog i am talking about is if you press ctrl+f in a code window or you add a menu option with _med_find.
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