I and almost any other competent Windows programmer would not call what you did a "bug fix". You really have not fixed anything, except do a hack which may not work on other systems.

Instead of fighting with the Windows OS (the AfxMessageBox is a call to the API ::MessageBox() function, whicn in turn can be modal, system modal, application modal, and the dialog goes in a closed message loop, etc. etc.) why not tell us what the real problem is that you were having before resorting to this? Maybe someone can help you with that problem first.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie