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I am having problems getting "show as window" on a subfile control record format to work as I would expect it to.

I have created program B with a panel and a subfile grid and I have specified true for the "show as window" property. I have also set overlay to "true".

Program A displays its screen and calls Program B. The "window" for program B appears as a window (i.e. drag-able and page masked). However, the underlying Program A display is no longer shown.

Are there some other properties that I need to set on either the A or B display file?

This works much like the green-screen.

I would think that the screen is getting cleared when the window format is shown because the window format is in a separate display file from the main screen?

Is that right?

If that is the case, also set the "assume" property on at least one format in the display file containing the window format -- it doesn't matter which one.

When this is done, window content from the separate display file can co-exist with the main screen content from another file.

The "overlay" property is not necessary when windows are used.

Thanks, problem solved.