<<I think modal forms should not generally be used for data entry of records. However, there are times when you may want a form to be modal and allow record entry. What I do in this situation is use the ebizobjform with WidowType set to modal. Although this does not enable the File menu options, it does give me my toolbar and ALL the methods to process the records (I don't have to add any special code!)>>

Hi Matthew -

I suppose for the most part you are correct, that most of the time when you have a modal form, you don't want to allow data entry. In fact, in examining what I am trying to do, I guess you could say that I am compensating for a different problem by wanting to do DE from my modal form.... This modal form is a child form (ebizchildform). It actually could/should be non-modal, but the problem is I can't figure out how to keep it in synch w/the parent form, so I solved this by making it modal. So, does anyone know how to make my child form show the proper information as the user pages thru the records in the parent form? Is there native CB methods that automatically take care of this, or do I need to write my own?

Thanks!

ellen