Just to make it clear, the problem is that your form does not appear?
Are you sure that it actually runs? Try to add a Wait window 'Test' line just to be sure.


>I moved the clear events, but that didn't fix it either.
>
>>I don't think you should have Clear events in the main.prg, Read events should be the last line to execute. Clear events should be in the destroy event of the form.
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>>>Hi Tore - Still no dice. I tried moving the READ EVENTS into the forms init method, but that didn't make a difference ( not that I thought it would).
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_vfp.visible=.F.

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>>>>>Hi Tore - I tried your suggestion, but no dice. I'm stumped!
>>>>>
>>>>>>_screen.visible=.F.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Form activate: thisform.visible=.T.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hello, I'm writing a quit utility app and I would like for the main VFP screen not to be showing when the program is executed. The problem is, whenever I run the exe, my form will not show either. What am I missing?? Thanks in advance for the help.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>In my config.fpw, I have the following statement:
>>>>>>>SCREEN = OFF
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I have my form properties set as follows:
>>>>>>>ALWAYSONTOP = .T.
>>>>>>>MDIFORM = .F.
>>>>>>>SHOWWINDOW = 2 (AS TOP LEVEL FORM)
>>>>>>>WINDOWTYPE = 0 (MODELESS)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>This is what my main.prg looks like:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>ON SHUTDOWN DO myShutDown
>>>>>>>ON ERROR DO errhand WITH ;
>>>>>>> ERROR( ), MESSAGE( ), MESSAGE(1), PROGRAM( ), LINENO(1)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>DO SysMenu.mpr
>>>>>>>DO FORM SizeView
>>>>>>>READ EVENTS
>>>>>>>ON ShutDown
>>>>>>>CLEAR EVENTS
>>>>>>>QUIT
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>*********************************************************
>>>>>>>PROCEDURE myShutDown
>>>>>>>CLEAR EVENTS
>>>>>>>ON ShutDown
>>>>>>>QUIT
>>>>>>>*********************************************************
>>>>>>>PROCEDURE errhand
>>>>>>>PARAMETER merror, mess, mess1, mprog, mlineno
>>>>>>> LOCAL myMessage
>>>>>>> myMessage='Error number: ' + LTRIM(STR(merror))+ CHR(13) ;
>>>>>>> + 'Error message: ' + mess + CHR(13) ;
>>>>>>> + 'Line of code with error: ' + mess1 + CHR(13);
>>>>>>> + 'Line number of error: ' + LTRIM(STR(mlineno)) + CHR(13) ;
>>>>>>> + 'Program with error: ' + mprog
>>>>>>> =MESSAGEBOX(myMessage,"ERROR !!!",16)
>>>>>>>RETURN