access 2k;

I've read a million "why doesn't on focus / activate work". I'm very
well aware that on focus doesn't work as most expect.

Here's what I don't understand:
when my form does an openform to open a "pop-up form - that is NOT a
'popup' ", it NEVER EVER runs the deactivate code.

Now - I don't really care about the deactivate code - I REALLY want to
activate code to run.
but if the original form is never "deactivated" when another form is
open from the "on open" of the original; then my original will NEVER
be activated when the popup is closed!!!!

Simply:
When my form opens, it should cause a popup; the user selects a value,
and the popup closes.
There is a "title" field on my form that should be populated with a
global value from the popup window.

How do I tell access to WAIT to populate this field until AFTER the
popup is closed??
(or refresh it after the popup is closed)

AND - I cannot have code in the popup itself assigning the value,
because the popup is called from MANY forms, and it won't know which
form to use to assign values.

TIA -Bob