>Hi Gang!
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>Long time, no see!
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>Well, I am trying to fix some problems at a client's site.
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>They have a FoxPro 2.6a program running under Windows XP SP2, 504 MB RAM, 3.39 GHz.
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>They have in a table some GEN fields (along with Memo). In these GEN fields, they have pict files. They can DBL-CLK on the GEN field, and the field would open up to show the Picture. If they DBL-CLK the picture, it used to open up in the OLE-linked application. But no more. They get a " Cannot Activate OLE Server" error message from FoxPro.
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>Any ideas why it may have stopped??
Maybe a new graphics program was installed that is now the default "handler" for the picture file type, and it's not an OLE/COM server (or it's not accessible from a 16-bit app).
One thing to try might be to uninstall then reinstall the app that's supposed to be handling the pictures.
Regards. Al
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