I believe I had a similiar situation, and I added a check in the frmUpdateEvent like this if (frmP == FrmGetActiveFrm) or maybe it was WinGetActiveWindow or WinGetDrawWindow that way, if the frm gets the message when it's not to be drawn, it ignores it. Lionscribe
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