>Included for backward compatibility. Use the ShowWindow Property instead.
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>>without a word about what the property does. If you follow the link to ShowWindow, you'll see that it actually has nothing to do with this setting, and there is no reverse link back to MDIForm. Shhh! We dare not complain, or MS will simply remove this functionality altogether.
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>>Mike
>
>Ahh, but the help file in VFP 8 (I don't have 7.0 handy to check) is different. It says:
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>Remarks
>Set a form's MDIForm property to .T. (true) if you want the child form to be combined with the parent when maximized, or to .F. (false) if the child window should be retained as a separate window when maximized.
>
>HTH

Thanks for pointing this out, Alex. That's the first time I've ever seen a deprecated feature brought back from the dead. (VFP7 Help on MSDN also reads the same as VFP6, BTW.) I should have checked the VFP8 docs myself!

Mike