Hi, Elmer!

> It would appear that the activeX graph objects with their individual
> hwnds are grabbing the _vfp.Activeform preventing you from even ...

Yes, it is. But, again, it's a one more bug in FoxPro. ActiveForm must a Form, isn't it?

> The first time that I had a timer fire that set focus to another object
> when a modal form was up, it took me days to finally figure out what was
> causing the application to hang.

Same to me.

> Now I rarely use modal forms.

Avoiding modal windows will make the application funny looking, unreliable and tricky. Plus it's much more difficult to programming.

It's a bad way, but I don't have a better.

> you can do is report it as a bug and hope for a fix in the near future.

:-)
Report to Microsoft?
:-)))

> Unfortunately, you will probably get an answer that this behaviour
> is "by design".

Or, "Yes, it's a bug, but we are not going to fix it."
My company has reported about another bug about OCXs in VFP 5 many yeas ago.
We know.

Good Luck, Elmer.