Hi Gregory,

There is a way. See the suggestions Yuir provided. It worked for me.

Thanks for trying to assist.

Mike


>Mike,
>
>Just tried to similate. Seems to work over here
>
>Perhaps the easiest to do is to put a few statements in the Activate)( and Deactivate of both ListBoxForm and FakeForm and see what happens
>

>=DoDefault()
>acti screen
>?program()
>

>
>Or perhaps turn event tracking on and watch the output window.
>
>There must be a way
>
>
>>Gregory,
>>
>>I tried setting step on in the fakeform.DeActivate() event and it never gets there. The help says, "...Moving the focus to or from a form in another application doesn't trigger either [Activate or DeActivate] event."
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>>Perhaps I should have mentioned that the form containing the listbox has a ShowWindow property set to "In Top-Level" and is also a modal form.
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>>Fakeform.ShowWindow is set to "In Top-Level Form".
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>>So the real situation is that I have a main form (called say, Mainform) that can then do another form (called say, AnotherForm) that is shown in Mainform and AnotherForm does Fakeform that is also shown in Mainform.
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>>Does any of this shed some light on the situation? Do you think that my form settings is making VFP think that the forms are different applications?
>>
>>Mike
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>>>Mike,
>>>
>>>Doesn't the FakeForm.DeActivate() method fire when you click outside its boundary ?