>>Is there an elegant way to show the entire modal form?
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>try Desktop=.T. on the modal form.

Can't use Desktop because I have Screen=off in config.fpw.
The thing I ended up with was to set it as a top-level form with "AlwaysOnTop=.T."
and then have the method() that calls it set "AlwaysOnTop=.F." immediately after calling it.