given that a dialog will by default be modal it will have the focus of your app until it closes ... to launch another dialog would be trivial ... launching a non-modal window would be like launching a modeless dialog as far as i can tell ... you would have to post a message to the modeless window if the modal dialog closed also if you didn't include doc/view support during appwizard phase a lot of support code will not be included so as far as i can see you'll be doing a lot of work to get it done ... can you not structure your app differently to make life easier? :suss: mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them