>Hi,
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>I have a modeless form and a menu that allows other forms to be called. In fact, there may be forms calling other forms up to seven levels deep. In general, everything behaves itself and releasing one forms moves 'focus' to the calling form, etc.
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>However, on occassions I have found to my surprise that focus suddenly moves to the modeless form, bypasses the other intermedia forms - leaving them open and on top. I use no 'modelessobject.setfocus()' commands and am at a loss to explain why this randomly occurs.

Just another question that might help to answer: what are the "intermedia" forms you refer to? Are they all modal, or a mixture?...It's not quite clear.