Hi Mark,

I can't answer all your questions, but if you set the sql to a cursor, or array, they should not pop up, unless you specificly browse them.

HTH
Beth

>One thing about the VFP IDE that I find particularly cumbersome is that the "screen" (also called the VFP desktop, i.e., the default text output area when working in the command window) quickly becomes obscured by overlapping windows.
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>Happens especially when I'm doing manual data analysis such as experimenting with SQL queries that generate several cursors (each browseable) and when doing manual rollups (such as SUM, COUNT, etc). What happens is that all these browse windows that I'm looking at are obscuring information on the "screen" that I also need to look at. Way too clumsy and just not helpful to do that CTRL-ALT-SHIFT thing over and over.
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>And often I need to use some of that text on the "screen" but VFP does not support copy to clipboard with the text on its "screen". So I have to manually type stuff in by hand.
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>What is the best way to deal with this? Is there a preferred way to configure VFP such that default output for all text occurs to a different destination than the VFP desktop, and:
>- It stays that way until I tell it otherwise
>- The text in the window can be copied to clipboard.
>- The window is floatable, zoomable, and will stay on top when I want it to
>- The window becomes a replacement for the desktop in terms of being VFP's default "device" for console output.
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>Thanks very much.