Hi Marcia,

>Hello Kevin.
>
>I am still not understanding why I would need to set those properties and why the actions are random,
>
>Well...it could be a bug. The only time I have ever seen this happen is when there is more than one form active with its AlwaysOnTop property set to true. Anyway, I found the work around years ago and have this code in the activate of my base form class so I just do not think about it anymore < s >.

Good tip,

I also have a simular unxplained behaviour in one of my VFP 8 projects. I'll try your solution and see what happens.

Walter,