>Greetings,
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>I'm interested in building a standalone provider search application to be distributed on CD-ROM. I'd like to avoid having the user run a "setup" routine if at all possible. I gather this is doable with VFP by itself, but can I use VFP to interface with & control IE4 (via ActiveX, VBScript, Java or some third party package) without having to run some kind of "web server" process in the background?
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>I'd love to hear about any success stories in this endeavor.


you cannot avoid Setup- because VFP needs the runtime libraries and IE4 changes a lot of system DLLs


As for Automating IE - you can do that quite easly , IE registers a "webbrowser" control you can drop in a VFP form

Arnon