This mean that ShowWindow property value of your form is 1 (In screen). Change it to 2 (As Top Level form) and should work.
If you want other forms to be activated inside this form, set ShowWindow property value to 1 (In Top-Level form)


>>Yes you can add _screen.visible=.f.
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>I put the code _screen.visible=.f. in form1.load in my form but when I ran the .exe the form didn't show up.
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>regards,
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>Budianto