_screen.BackColor =16711808 oform = CREATEOBJECT('form') oform.BackColor =8453888 oform.ShowThe form and the screen are garish but if you then do:
oform.Hide oform.LockScreen=.t. oform.Showstill pretty garish, but it is as if the form contents were invisible. So basically what Nick said seems right on target. It gets pretty strange looking if you flip to another application and then back to fox.