Well, now I'm really confused, I tried this again at home, and now the problem manifests. I'd be willing to swear on Philip K. Dick's grave that this did not happen when I tried it a few days ago.

Odd.

Alan

>Hi Jos, it wasn't Bela's note that confused me, it was Curt's:
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>After starting the form, the Show Desktop icon (or right-click taskbar, Show the Desktop) must be selected FIRST, before clicking the form's Minimize button, in order to reproduce the problem.
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>That seems to say that the form was minimized manually after clicking 'Show Desktop'. That's where I got confused because there was no form on the screen to minimize after I clicked 'Show Desktop'. Clearly, looking back on it, that is not what he meant, it's just the way I read it.
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>On the other hand, I did try, at home on WinXP, exactly the same thing I did here under Win2k, and the problem appears here, but not at home. I'll have to do some checking to see if I can figure out what might be different (other than simply the O/S).
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>Alan
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>>Alan, I think the problem is that:
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>>1) If you click this "Show Desktop" button (or use right-click version) it minimizes all running apps, including your VFP app. So far so good.
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>>2) If you click it again (or right-click version) it restores all apps back to where they were. ie. its a toggle switch. Also no problem.
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>>3) If you click the minimized VFP app and choose restore it also restores without problem.
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>>4) BUT, if the VFP app tries to restore itself (ie un-minimize itself) then it does not do it properly. This is what Bela means by "...to restore the form to its original size and position programatically"
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>>My (ZAR 2c / 7.4) US cents worth :)
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>>>Ah, thanks Jos. I knew about right clicking to get the menu item, but I wonder how the button went missing in the first place? Anyway, to be honest, I really don't want it back. The less real-estate taken up by Windows with buttons I don't need, the more for me.
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>>>What I didn't understand from the other post was the implication that after clicking 'Show desktop', the test form was then minimized manually. Likely I just misunderstood what he said.
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>>>Alan
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