>Is there any way to call up the Report Controls tool bar programmatically in VFP 5.0?
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>Help says that the tool bar will appear automatically when a MODIFY REPORT is issued. The behavior that I have seen is that the tool bar will come up automatically only if it was there before. If not, you have to get it via the View / Tools menu.
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>The problem is in APPS when the View / Tools menu is not available. Assumeing I could get it to come up the first time a user wanted to MODIFY a REPORT, if s/he ever turned it off then it would be lost for ever without a programmatic way of turning it back on again.
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>New to VFP so help is definitely appreciated.
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>Ed

You should include View/Tools menu in your app menu. Then run something like:

modify report d:\vfp5test\report1 nowait
if not wexist("Report Controls")
 keyboard '{Alt+V}'
 keyboard '{l}'
endif
return